provide.… The authority for our thinking depends on the degree to which it necessarily emerges from clearly taught biblical categories.”15 These are statements to which every nouthetic counselor subscribes. But where does Crabb in fact get his system-shaping categories? Scripture nowhere yields Crabb’s view of “deep yearnings/needs for relationship and impact”; his Jesus Who encounters us primarily as the meeter of our needs; his reductionistic analysis of the psyche into four nested circles of emotion,