Essays on Lying

Many of us lie and we beautify it or make the concept more acceptable by wrapping it up in euphemism and calling it easier names like ‘fib’ or in the Nigerian context, ‘scope’. Case in point, a pretty lady in a bus to Lagos from…

“Forget that crap about the patient not being ready for therapy! It’s the therapy that’s not ready for the patient. But you have to be bold and creative enough to fashion a new therapy for each patient.” ~ Irvin Yalom, Lying on the Couch Introduction…

Plato’s Republic Is it better to tell a harmless lie or a hurtful truth? Most believe that “white” lies couldn’t hurt a soul, but what happens when lying becomes easier than telling the truth? What happens when people start believing your lies? In most cases,…

The Accuracy of The Invention of Lying In The Invention of Lying, a man discovers the idea of lying, of simply saying anything other than the truth, in a society where that has been inconceivable. The society itself has had a strange way of telling…