When humans made the evolutionary leap into language, they ceased merely to be creatures adapting, successfully or unsuccessfully, to their environment and entered the world of meaning, conflict, and therapy.

Since the time of the oracles and prophets all therapies have sought to be both explanatory and supportive. The human need to know and the need for succor have always coexisted, sometimes contending, sometimes cooperating, but always in tension with one another. At any given time and place the