While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy

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.

Deceit And Violence - These Are The Two Forms Of Deliberate Assault On Human Beings.

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.

Psychologists Have Found That We Are More Likely, In Looking Back At Our Lives, To Remember High Points And Dramatic Shifts In Far Greater Proportion Than Ongoing Stretches Of Happiness Or Misery.

Sitting Too Long In Front Of A Screen Proves Both Physically And Psychologically Debilitating, No Matter How Innocuous Or Even Beneficial The Programs May Be.