ABSTRACT
I spend much of my time in teaching (and supervising) trainees admonishing them not to ask too many questions. Dorpat (2000) made a scholarly argument against the asking of questions during therapy. The name of his book sort of sums it up: Gaslighting, the Double-Whammy, Interrogation, and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis. Dorpat pointed out that any time a therapist asks questions, people in treatment feel (a) pinned, (b) pushed to perform, (c) invaded, (d) disrespected, and (e) distracted from what they were going to tell us.
