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Psychotherapists may experience events in their private lives such as marriage, sickness, birth, brutal absence... Which personal and interactive factors will push them to discuss an element of their lives with a client? What consequences and precautions should be anticipated? After presenting and commenting upon several situations which support the act of “telling” or “not telling,” the author questions the concept of personal involvement within Gestalt Therapy in its ethical, deontological, clinical and therapeutic aspects.