ABSTRACT
Prior to joining the army for my doctoral internship in psychology, I worked as a master’s-level psychotherapist for several years. In retrospect, I did possess some degree of naïveté with regard to my approach to therapy, particularly the issue of patient honesty; however, I wasn’t a therapeutic “sucker.” I was aware that, for various reasons, whether from intentional omission or outright lying, patients were not always as honest as they could be.
