title: Relinquishing the truth.
abstract: In this essay, the author reflects on a case involving a client who presents to therapy asking for professional guidance as to whether she should tell her adult child of her true paternity. The child was the product of a paternal rape. The author explores the impact of this case on her thinking about truth as prerequisite to healing.
authors.affiliation: anned@mclaren.org
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dohrenwend
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D006801:Humans; D010334:Paternity; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology*