Dilemmas of Classification and Diagnosis
an acknowledgment of the deep going ambivalence among clinicians and educators about the purpose, utility and necessity of diagnostic work. There are many reasons for this ambivalence. Because it manifests itself already on the level of training, fewer and fewer psychologists are competent diagnosticians. For most students diagnostic explorations have shrunk to the level of &dquo;psychometrics.&dquo; The ranks of the great diagnosticians in clinical work are thinning. On the horizons of child clinical psychology, school psychology and special education, there is no sign announcing the rise of another Beck, Schachtel