Stranger Than Most

By SUSAN LAUTZ

The psych trade is full of dichotomies. Theoretical models operate in direct opposition to each other, and the proponents of those theories each think they know the one, right way to shrink a client’s head. Theorists live in the rarefied air of academia where they busy themselves publishing studies and tearing each other apart in journal articles. (Get them together at a convention, add alcohol and things can get pretty dicey.) But bring those theorists down from their ivory towers into the trenches and see what happens to their one, right method. Like most of us who actually PRACTICE therapy, they’re forced to adopt a much more varied approach. Basically they just have to toss that plate of spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks.

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