A potentially clinical psychiatric mental health situation becomes
"clinical" if the clinician relates to the helpee to awaken his unique
potential or ontic wholeness, and noetically transcending this relating
conceptualizes its meaning.
Clinician signifies a particular mode of being and a particular kind of
cognitive knowledge. With all his human capacity the clinician relates
with his clinical-world consciously and deliberately in "I-Thou," and
"I-It."
Relating in "I-Thou" with the other in-his-clinical-world the clinician
gives himself and receives back the other and himself in the sphere of
"the between." {109} He knows the other and the more of himself in this
relating. He is confirmed and confirms the other through the other's
presence with him. Thus, he calls forth the other's actualizing of self
through the clinical relationship. In accepting the other as he is the
clinician imagines and responds to the reality of his potential for
becoming, becoming according to his unique capacity for humanness.
Relating in "I-It" with his clinical world the clinician noetically
transcends himself, objectifies himself, and studies his "I-Thou"
knowing. He teases it apart. He classifies and studies it. He asks it
questions. He compares and contrasts it to other clinical experiences.
He discusses its many aspects in dialogue with his "inward," and
possibly "outward" "Thous." He reorders its parts. He shapes, creates,
plans from and for its clinical existence. Thus, he ever augments a
world of heuristic knowing.
This "how" allows the clinical fulfillment of my nursing "why." Comfort
is "why" I, as a nurse, am in the health-nursing situation. As
conceptualized "comfort" is being able to freely control and plan for
one's self, being fully in accord at a particular time, in a particular
situation, with one's unique potential. Now, "what" is the nature of the
nurse's world, the health-nursing situation?