Chapter 7 Truth
Attention to the pursuit of truth in the moment can help us not to react to this uncertainty by turning our backs on it and retreating into tried-and-tested, known patterns of behaviour. […] Any insight, no matter how small, into what is really going on in a group – that is, into truth in the moment – can be transformational.
– Peter French and Robert Simpson
Insight into truth in the moment
The first element I will address here is ‘Truth’, defined here as the perceived truth or reality that an individual or a group experiences in a given moment.
As I mentioned in my discussion of Winnicott’s definition of our ‘false’ and ‘true’ selves in Chapter 5, the use of the words ‘true’ and ‘false’ ...
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