The Non-Disclosing Patient

This volume is to examine the phenomena of non-disclosure in its wide ranging forms, study its properties, and to deepen the capacity of a mental health professional --as well as all clinicians who provide mental health counseling -- to detect and engage it across a range of clinical settings.  Unengaged, sustained DNDD represents an impasse that is destructive to a clinician’s capacity to both understand and treat a patient.  Successfully engaged, on the other hand, DNDD offers a un