ABSTRACT
The basic assumption about consulting with colleagues or research associates is that there is a reason why the person requiring consultation has come for counsel about his or her research. A corollary assumption is that the person who is doing the counseling should listen carefully for that reason—or elicit it if necessary—and attempt to answer the consultee’s problem, issue, question, or handle appropriately the “psychological condition” that is blocking an effective research analysis. The seminars are kept small, at a maximum of ten or twelve participants, since more people makes concentrated analysis difficult and stretches out the time before students can repeatedly present their data for group discussion. The very first presenter is asked to tell what he or she expects to get from the ensuing class discussion, so that everyone learns quickly to expect that presentations will be prefaced by such announcements or requests.
