On the Dangers of Traditional Diagnoses

The current author has long since been aware of the phenomena that clients and students teach us almost as much as we help them. While this benefit to our profession is not (and never should be) the result of our own self-indulgence or attempts to meet our own needs, the author is still constantly surprised at the number of times that he is profoundly moved and changed by my therapeutic encounters as a therapist and educator. This article discusses one such example of learning from a student. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)