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Psychoanalysis is the only science that isn’t appalled by deliberate liars
trying to deceive the investigator. The importance of lying and the need for us
all to lie lies—so to speak—at the heart of psychoanalysis. John
Forrester addresses this in Truth Games. Published by Harvard, £15.50,
ISBN 0674539621

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