ABSTRACT
As discussed in the previous chapter, seven months prior to closing my eighteenyear practice in Michigan and relocating to Florida, I began the torturous process of telling patients about my leaving-taking. In this chapter I look at what I disclosed to patients about my move, and what I knowingly or unknowingly kept to myself. At the time, I gave considerable thought to what I would say. When I looked back at the telling from a distance of ten years, I realized I gave much less thought to what I omitted and why. In exploring the motivations behind both the spoken and the hidden, I came to understand that my disclosure was an unconscious expression of my need to feel connected without feeling overly exposed, to feel close without feeling too revealed.
