ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an intriguing look into the hidden world of the consulting room through a case study of Belle. Belle had been born and grew up near the port city of Dunedin on the south-east coast of South Island, New Zealand, the second of three daughters of a Scottish father and English mother. Belle was a woman with drive inside her but with no sense of where to go. For one who appeared so fragile, she had got herself into situations that would have scared a more conventional young woman half to death. The therapist has to recognize the lie as part of what the individual has in her employ as a way of going about things and therefore should not be offended as one might be in friendship. People have often thought of therapeutic neutrality as a kind of indifference, an injunction against the therapist disclosing what she feels to the patient.
