Self-Disclosure for Shyness

One of the most powerful techniques I've developed for treatment of shyness is called self-disclosure. It's where you simply tell the person that you're feeling kind of shy and that you've always been ashamed of your shyness, so you've been hiding it. When we came out to California from Philadelphia, I taught at the local Kaiser about cognitive therapy. And then they hired this department chairman and had a reception for him. They wanted me to sit next to him at the reception and also speak to him about the teaching that I've been doing. Well, when I looked at his resume, I felt incredibly intimidated and anxious because he was from Harvard. So if I look real