ABSTRACT
Clients want a psychotherapist who is trustworthy, understanding and capable. They imagine that it is possible to live rather more resourcefully than they are doing at present and they look for signs of such living in the professional they consult. Clients scrutinise their psychotherapists for evidence of quality of life. Finding the merest hint of humanity and decent living in the psychotherapist gives clients hope. Seeing evidence of psychotherapists’ blind spots, badly borne adversity, arrogance, complacency or confusion is reason for discouragement.
