Department of Clinical Psychology, Mahmoudabad Education and Training Consulting Unit, Mazandaran, Iran
Research Article
Descriptive Phenomenology of Examples of Dishonesty in Psychotherapy from the Client's Point of View
Author(s): Hossein Alipour* and Mahdi Akbari
The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying examples of dishonesty in psychotherapy from
the clients' point of view in 1402. The method used in this research is a qualitative, descriptive phenomenology
type. The statistical population of this research included all the clients of counselling centres in Amol city
in 1402 who participated in this research using non-probability sampling method. The researcher reached
information saturation by interviewing 19 clients and 4 more interviews were conducted with the clients,
in total 23 people were the sample clients of this study. A 3-question semi-structured interview protocol was
used to collect information. The seven-stage descriptive phenomenological method of Collaizi was used for
data analysis. The findings showed that dishonesty in the treatment room is inevitable and the reasons for
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