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Honesty is Still the Best Policy
Author(s) -
Cade Brian
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6427.00075
Subject(s) - honesty , intervention (counseling) , psychology , power (physics) , psychotherapist , social psychology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper reconsiders a case study written two decades ago which demonstrated restraint from change as a therapeutic technique. Rather than the ‘power’ of paradox, validation and the recognition of ambivalance are proposed as different ways of understanding the effects of the intervention.