ABSTRACT
A simple model goes a long way toward facilitating both diagnosis and prescription in consultation. This model describes patterns of interaction in terms of four variables, whose two basic combinations may be called “regenerative” and “degenerative,” Figure 1 suggests the sense of two self-reinforcing systems of interaction, defined roughly in terms of high vs. low profiles of four variables. For simplicity, Figure 1 refers only to the interaction system that develops between any two people.
