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Self-disclosure, particularly in a psychoanalytic context, carries the risk of shame as well as potential accusations of gratuitous self-exposure. Yet autobiographical writing, when honestly conveyed in an experience-near manner, can deepen access to personal truths and also expand the capacity for empathic immersion and intersubjective mutuality with patients in the consulting room.