On Sun, 23 Mar 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I don't understand why non-medical professionals in the field of psychology
> insist on calling their clients "patients", when the glory of the non-medical
> practitioner is that they are free of the medical model.  I think it is
> demeaning to the psychologist to take on the aura of a psychiatrist.
>
I am frenchspeaking, patient is the same word in French. It comes from
latin
patiens, patientis, of pati meaning souffrir (suffering). Le patient est
*celui qui souffre*, the one who suffers.
The *aura of a psychiatrist* is more an handicap for psychoanalysts as
the psychiatric position is incompatible with the psychoanalytic one.
Please excuse my English,
Monique.