The author argues that inauthenticity in therapy put clients’ health at stake, thus authenticity in therapeutical practice and how it affects the client is discussed in this descriptive article. The discussion encompasses clients who’s existence dwells at the brink to madness, and as an example, the author points to the normative understanding of narcissism. The author describes how traumatized clients are vulnerable to the therapist’s attunement and understanding, describes why authentic care in therapy is decisive for the client and illustrates this by the psychodynamic vulnerability of the self. Further authentic care is distinguished from inauthentic through a discussion of the concept “care”. The author gives a definition of care which unravels and wipes out the concept “bad care” by its essence. Thus the author emphasizes the meaning of care in therapy while postulating throughout the article that inauthenticity in therapy will force the client into dissociative processes which otherwise could be avoided, and discuss that inauthenticity in therapy assures that diagnoses are given that suicide likely occurs and by such calls upon a renewed focus on ethics in professional work in the disciplines of health.
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