This article describes the use of literature to teach counseling students. Specifically, the focus is on the art of diagnosing from the historicalperspective of "knowing someone through and through." The article describes an exercise that uses Potok's The Chosen to assist the clinician in understanding the individual and how to diagnosis him or her and maintain an understanding of the system in which behaviors occur.
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