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The need to share experience represents a core component of human biological and psychological, ranging from mother–infant attachment to core aspects of consciousness, including the capacity to differentiate internal from external stimuli, language acquisition and symbolic reasoning, and the development of functional social relationships. Nondisclosure, on the other hand, represents another essential domain of interpersonal functioning, and is intrinsic to self-differentiation, development of autonomy, and adherence to social norms. Nondisclosure takes many forms and occurs in different settings for different reasons.
Nondisclosure in clinical settings often goes undetected and is manifest indirectly through a clinician’s subjective experience of frustration, apathy, or distress, and tends to provoke psychological withdrawal and de-attunement on the clinician’s part. When perceived and addressed, on the other hand, consideration of nondisclosure and the motivational impulses driving it can serve as an invaluable source of insight into a patient’s motivation and mental functioning.
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Lerman, A. (2020). Shared Consciousness and the Emergence of Mind. In: The Non-Disclosing Patient. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48614-3_8
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