Disillusionment

Abstract

our joys and troubles in the world issues in therapeutic beneŽt. In sum, these are the principal lessons our clinical practice has to teach us: ‘theory’ is a tool, not in any sense knowledge; the Other is invented anew in the to-and-fro of every session; and when we subscribe to any overarching theory, we have already decided how the psychic unconscious should speak. Perhaps I am a psychodynamic counsellor, after all. Larry O’Carroll, 98 Leahurst Road, Hither Green, London SE13 5NN E-mail: leahurst@Larry 28.freeserve.co.uk