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I started teaching in 1978, and have been practically teaching ever since. I've taught at the postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate level. First, at the University of Pittsburgh, next at Carnegie Mellon and an array of residency programs, and, currently, at Johns Hopkins. In those venues, I felt it was important first to present ideas and theories and, second, to help the students to clarify their thinking about these formulations. Since I believe that it is important to expose students to ideas and to support them in fully formulating "their" thinking, as a candidate it came as no surprise to me that many of my faculty did the same. Yet, we were not only theoreticians we were clinicians. As a candidate, I found myself wondering what my faculty thought, how their thinking informed their interventions in the clinical hour and what their interventions looked like. For me, part of formulating my own ideas entailed learning from their experiences (did I really have to make every last mistake myself, or could I learn from their experience?). Yet, I found that very often, I completed a course without the foggiest notion of what the faculty person thought.

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