The therapeutic nature of confessions

The disguise of self‐disclosure: The relationship ruse of a Soviet Spy

“…Further, in a number of personal disclosures, Glenn also referred to dual identities, metaphors for his own duality. He was either taking an enormous risk by voicing such metaphors, or he was engaging in a cathartic, albeit symbolic, confession which self-disclosure also may represent (Hymer, 1982).…”

Restoration of the self: A therapeutic paradigm from Augustine's Confessions..

“…Psychoanalysis, which from the outset considered verbal confessions as an integral part of the therapeutic process (Hymer, 1982), has consistently approached Augustine’s Confessions as a document of clinical relevance for the study of personality processes. Some of the best known studies (Dittes, 1986; Kligerman, 1954; Pruyser, 1965) represent a configurational approach to autobiography, a method "aiming at the recognition of patterns, behaviors and responses which fit various psychoanalytic formulas such as the Oedipus complex, latent homosexuality, and narcissistic grandiosity" (Kligerman, 1984, p. 318).…”

La restauración del ser adulto en las Confesiones

“…Sharon Hymer (1982) en su análisis del papel que juegan las confesiones verbales en el contexto clínico dice:…”