Self-Disclosure

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses that self-disclosure refers to both the conscious and unconscious revelation of one's thoughts, feelings, experiences and other personal matters. The paper notes that self-disclosure begins from the time one person meets another and continues as their relationship develops. The paper explains that females are more open than males, how businessmen deal with the subject, the manner in which patients react with doctors, and various other examples of interactions with persons in similar groups.

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"Current Western cultural identity is not generally supportive of those who grieve and make communication in the time of bereavement difficult. However, it is precisely at this time that the bereaved must communicate and self-disclose in order to rebuild their shattered identity and universe. Future studies should discover how civilians can effectively communicate with them and in a way, which will not affect or violate their cultural belief of the self. The bereaved parents should also be helped in finding parallel ways of communicating with civilians as effectively and within the context of cultural constraints."

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