A question that often arises among supervisors. Sometimes clients tell their story in such a way that you inevitably have doubts about their credibility. We cannot “expose” them because we do not know what is really actually happened. And our mistrust will most likely have a negative impact on the alliance. We also cannot be overly gullible, because the patient, even vaguely feeling that he is fantasizing about something somewhere, will be the first to devalue such a naive therapist. What should we do? We must remember and understand that the object of our attention is not the objective , but the SUBJECTIVE perception of reality by the patient. And it is precisely this REALITY that we must explore, even if these are just his ideas of what happened. Among other things, we must understand why his mental reality is such - what in his psychodynamics contributed to the formation of precisely such a perception of reality. And of course, we cannot discount the fact that many truly terrible things happen in the world every day...