Abstract:Therapeutic realness occurs when therapists express their feelings, thoughts, and desires directly to their clients, even when doing so comes with risk. Previous nonclinical research indicates that realness is a core feature of the more general concept of authenticity/genuineness/congruence. In this article, we examined therapeutic realness in a sample of 691 therapist participants who reported on their typical experiences in therapy. Therapeutic realness was correlated with age and clinical experience and was… Show more
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