A half century ago, influential American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan characterized the clinical interview as a situation of primarily vocal communication . . . for the purpose of elucidating characteristic patterns of living of the subject person, the patient or client, which patterns he experiences as particularly troublesome or especially valuable, and in the revealing of which he expects to derive benefit.
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