Intuitive processes have their place in the clinical judgments of the therapist. They are also necessary in the scientific analysis of personality. But in diagnostic classification for the purpose of deciding the treatments to be given to patients, intuitive processes are ineffective and should be replaced by objective procedures whose efficiency has been established empirically.
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