The (K)Not of Self-Disclosure: One Therapist's Experience

Abstract

As psychoanalytic psychotherapy embraces relational and intersubjective ideas, the person of the clinician comes more into view. Nowhere is this more evident than in the domain of self-disclosure. This article addresses the clinical complexity surrounding personal disclosure when issues of the therapist's sexual orientation and major loss and the processing of grief enter the therapeutic field.

KEYWORDS:

• self-disclosure
• sexual orientation
• grief and loss
• relational/intersubjective frameworks