Peace, one and all…
‘What can we learn about ourselves if we really think about our experiences in helping other persons? Perhaps the first deep insight is that these others are persons, individual human beings, more than ‘cases’, ‘clients’ or ‘patients’. Identifying them consistently in this manner renews and refreshes us, for it keeps our focus on the humanity to which we want to relate even though it may be masked and shrouded by the hundred disguises of psychological problems’
(E. Kennedy & S C Charles, On Becoming A Counsellor, p.401)