Table of Contents

The Shared Experience and Self-Disclosure.- Self-Disclosure in Religious Spiritual Direction.- Theoretical Perspectives.- Self-Disclosure and Classical Psychoanalysis.- Show and Tell.- Self-Disclosure in Rational-Emotive Therapy.- Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and the Psychology of the Self.- Therapeutic Issues.- The Role of Implicit Communication in Therapist Self-Disclosure.- Transference, Countertransference, and Therapeutic Efficacy in Relation to Self-Disclosure by the Analyst.- Self-Disclosure and the Nonwhite Ethnic Minority Patient.- Feminist Therapy Perspectives on Self-Disclosure.- Therapeutic Modalities.- Self-Disclosure and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents.- Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy.- Self-Disclosure in Group Psychotherapy.- Extratherapeutic Manifestations.- Criteria for Therapist Self-Disclosure.- Self-Disclosure in Holocaust Survivors.- From Secrecy to Self-Disclosure.- Issues in the Disclosure of Perinatal Death.- Conclusion.- Self-Disclosure and Psychotherapy.