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This is a modified version of a chapter entitled “Show and Tell: Reflections on the Analyst's Self-Disclosure” inSelf Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship, edited by M. Fisher and G. Stricker, Plenum, New York, 1990.

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Basescu, S. Tools of the trade: The use of the self in psychotherapy. Group 14, 157–165 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01459151

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