229 The Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Sandi Mann
Dr Sandi Mann is a psychologist, University Lecturer and Director of The MindTraining Clinic in Manchester where much of her material for this book is derived. She is author of over 20 psychology books, her most recent being The Science of Boredom. She has also written and researched extensively about emotional faking, culminating in her book Hiding What We Feel, Faking What We Don’t.
‘Imposter Syndrome’; the belief that you are fraudulently claiming to be something you are not, that you are not as good as other people think you are. I have started to see it appear more and more in one guise or another in my private Clinic. Seemingly successful people - men, women and often teenagers too, are presenting with symptoms of this condition – and they are convinced that they are the only ones.