Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote their careers to ever greater nosological precision. Others, and among them I include myself, marvel that anyone can take diagnosis seriously, that it can ever be considered more than a simple cluster of symptoms and behavioral traits. Nonetheless, we find ourselves under ever-increasing pressure {from hospitals, insurance companies, governmental agencies} to sum up a person with a diagnostic phrase and a numerical category. Even
( Irvin D. Yalom )
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