My initial response was one of anger. I recalled all those futile hours Joe had led the group on a wild-goose chase. I was tempted to exclaim, “Damm it, Joe all those wasted meeting talking about your wife! Why didn’t you tell us this before? “But that is just the time to bite your tongue. The important thing is not that Joe did not give us this information earlier but that he did tell us today. Rather than being punished for his previous concealment, be should be reinforced for having made a breakthrough and been willing to take an enormous risk in the group. The proper technique consisted of supporting Joe and facilitating further “horizontal” disclosure, this is, about the experience of disclosure (see chapter 5