ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the importance of the truth in group psychotherapy and its relationship to anger and projection may appear to be unrelated on the problematic client, but without truth in psychotherapy there is no therapy as we know it. It demonstrates truth, anger, and projection are very much inextricably correlated. In fact, the truth seems to be perceived as a negative stimulus to many who present it and many who receive it, but psychotherapy and behavioral change have their foundation in its emergence. The concept of the ideal client in group or individual psychotherapy is just that, an ideal. Anger is ego dystonic and the client may not be cognizant of many manifestations. Frightening the therapist into passivity gives the threatener a sense of power, plus the individual never has to work on the underlying behaviors that brought him or her into psychotherapy.
