ABSTRACT
Psychotherapeutic errors and barriers are those behaviors and occurrences which needlessly delay or interfere with the patient’s progress toward self-understanding. All psychotherapists, from beginner to master hand, must accept fallibility as a part of psychotherapeutic practice. This acceptance is a necessary precedent to any kind of prevention, intervention, or postvention. To reject the idea that mistakes occur in all psychotherapeutic ventures is to be insensitive to such occurrences. Under such conditions of unawareness or narcissism, the psychotherapist is more likely to ignore or compound therapeutic errors.
