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The secret that guilty confessions fail to disclose
From: American Journal of Psychotherapy
Date: 20020101
Author:Goldberg, Carl
In my work with destructive clients, I have found suspect the notion that our deepest fear is that we are malevolent. By use of intuitive insights about the nature of confession in the writings of three literary psychologists-Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoevsky-and from clinical evidence in a case study of a client who confessed to a crime, I seek to show the actual psychodynamics at work in the confession of a crime.
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -Robert Loius Stevenson
Theodor Reik (1), in his Compulsion to Confess, presents a case study of a man who ...
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