Liars Share With Those They Deceive The

While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy Is Not Meant To Deceive.

Trust And Integrity Are Precious Resources, Easily Squandered, Hard To Regain. They Can Thrive Only On A Foundation Of Respect For Veracity.

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.

To Mature Is In Part To Realize That While Complete Intimacy And Omniscience And Power Cannot Be Had, Self-transcendence, Growth, And Closeness To Others Are Nevertheless Within One's Reach.

Secrecy Is As Indispensable To Human Beings As Fire, And As Greatly Feared.