ABSTRACT
The most important and most difficult challenge to caregivers is to recognize the extent of our ignorance without instilling despair in ourselves or those who seek our help. In other words, we therapists need to be humble, tranquil, wise, critical, and hopeful at the same time. Good luck to us! This challenge can be met only by the honest appraisal of our current state of knowledge, which is extremely limited. What little we do know is no less substantial and promising. Achieving a comfortable degree of acceptance and self-respect is possible if we realize that we are working toward a very important social and scientific goal.
