Erikson on Therapy

What is described here is essentially (and predictably) typically for Harvard. In fact, comparative study will make it possible to put aside the competitive question as to how many or how few individuals are troubled in given settings. There are always some, in any setting, who must be steered in their erratic growth or kept from being crushed by a transitory condition. The relevant questions are only what kind of problems receive public recognition and attention; who is appointed to deal with them; and what these caretakers will make of these problems--medically, conceptually, and ideologically.

Introduction to the Emotional Problems of the Student.