Liars Share With Those They Deceive The

Confidentiality Refers To The Boundaries Surrounding Shared Secrets And To The Process Of Guarding These Boundaries. While Confidentiality Protects Much That Is Not In Fact Secret, Personal Secrets Lie At Its Core. The Innermost, The Vulnerable, Often The Shameful: These Aspects Of Self-disclosure Help Explain Why One Name For Professional Confidentiality Has Been "the Professional Secret." Such Secrecy Is Sometimes Mistakenly Confused With Privacy; Yet It Can Concern Many Matters In No Way Private, But That Someone Wishes To Keep From The Knowledge Of Third Parties.

We Are All, In A Sense, Experts On Secrecy. From Earliest Childhood We Feel Its Mystery And Attraction. We Know Both The Power It Confers And The Burden It Imposes. We Learn How It Can Delight, Give Breathing Space And Protect.

Psychologists Have Found That We Are More Likely, In Looking Back At Our Lives, To Remember High Points And Dramatic Shifts In Far Greater Proportion Than Ongoing Stretches Of Happiness Or Misery.

Deceit And Violence - These Are The Two Forms Of Deliberate Assault On Human Beings.

Whatever Matters To Human Beings, Trust Is The Atmosphere In Which It Thrives.