counselors do with people? Nothing takes place between them except that they talk to each other.… [The therapist gets the patient] to talk, listens to him, talks to him in his turn, and gets him to listen.… And incidentally do not let us despise the word. After all it is a powerful instrument; it is the means by which we convey our feelings to one another, our method of influencing other people.2 Psychotherapy is simply intentional conversation occurring “under the guidance of the therapist” who