A metaperspective on the relationship between psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy is argued in which the right-brain mediated subjective experiences and intuitive awareness so important in psychotherapy are valued equally with the left-brain elicited orderliness, sequential thinking, and linguistic precision used in good dignosis.
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