title: A brief personal meditation about failure and defeat.
abstract: Failure and defeat create despair, but can also create new ways to imagine our therapeutic work with people. This essay explores one approach to understanding this idea.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0108, USA. james.clark@uc.edu
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D017211:Treatment Failure