strange lands. Counselors are extremely vulnerable to disinformation: things that are true enough but steadily misleading. Even if you keep your wits about you, you feel your powerlessness in the face of an uncanny force field. The sufferer remains comfortless. The eel wriggles out of your hands. These disconnects occur exactly where help is most needed. This, by the way, is not only a counseling and how-to-live-your-life problem. In technical terms, it is also the hermeneutical problem. How do you