“... Finally, never forget that you have promised absolute honesty, and never leave anything unsaid because for any reason it is unpleasant to say it.” Freud
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Luis R. Marcos, M.D., is a candidate in training in the American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center and a senior resident in Psychiatry at the N.Y.U. Bellevue Medical Center.
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Marcos, L.R. Lying: A particular defense met in psychoanalytic therapy. Am J Psychoanal 32, 195–202 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01872516
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