ABSTRACT
Thou shalt not skill! Having taken a selective journey through some of the origins and developments of empathic understanding in Chapter 1, we now take a reverse angle view in this section. Very often it seems that people (such as Carl Rogers, trainers, trainees, correspondents and authors) have defined empathic understanding, at least in part, through a process of eliminating what it is not as much as by defining and celebrating what empathic understanding is. although this may very well be understandable, it has perhaps also been unfortunate in some respects.
