ABSTRACT
The term ‘diagnosis’ holds controversy for many gestalt therapists with its objectifying relational stance. However, our human need to make meaning of our world means that it is inevitable that we will diagnose. Also, as Delisle states,
. . . maintaining that diagnosis is depersonalizing, perhaps we have forgotten that it is as depersonalizing, antitherapeutic and repressive to deny the existence of real differences between individuals.
