The Importance of Diagnosis in Therapy

"I err on the side of hesitation with diagnosis myself so I always say to clients like you know what I put on your forms is as general as I can possibly keep it," says Carrie. "You're welcome to use any framework that you feel like resonates for you and it can stay and it can change and you can come back to it", she adds. 'If a client is coming in and endorsing maybe enthusiastically a diagnosis and the clinician is secretly sending their thinking they don't think this person has a diagnosis' asks Dr. Carole Wexler, author of The Diagnosis: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Treating People With Psychotic Personality Disorder (Simon & Sch