ABSTRACT
when we talk about psychotherapy today, we generally mean a mode of nonmedical treatment of mentally disturbed people that employs psychological methods. The mode of treatment may not be based upon a comprehensive theory of personality and may isolate a segment of human experience, concentrate upon it, and thus produce a “cure.” “Cure” itself is a word that has a plenitude of meanings, with the result that no sensible or rational discussion of it can take place about it—unless one defines it as the removal of a symptom or the disappearance of a syndrome. Syndrome is another expression that psychiatrists use frequently but with their own personalized meaning.
