Cognitively the range of these consultation discussions was broad. Some common themes were social and health histories of families, pertinent psychological growth and development factors of persons in the families of concern to the consultees, relationships between persons within the situations, resources available to the families, ways the consultees could relate with the parents and patients' families, friends, and other professionals in the situation, and the meaning of all these themes to the particular consultee. This clinical consultation experience necessitated my being certain ways. It necessitated my being authentic with myself with regard to what responses were called forth in me in relating with a particular consultee. I viewed honesty with the consultee as a value necessary to the consultation process. In approaching the consultation I needed to be open to the consultee's angular view and predisposed toward an "I-Thou" relationship. The "I-Thou" relating necessitated subsequent scientific understanding extrapolated from it through reflection on it as "I-It." My hope in consultation was to offer both a cognitive, as well as, an ontic experience in which a mutual feeling apart from and toward the other would exist. This latter seemed most important to me. If the consultee experienced my being authentically present with her, she then would be apt to offer this type of relationship to the patients and families of concern to her. Results of Comparison The two clinical consultation experiences were juxtaposed, contrasted, questioned, related, and synthesized to envision their unified contribution to the construct of "clinical." The synthetic construct of "clinical" is not viewed as a mere juxtaposing, a disintegrating, or reconstructing of the contributions {108} to my knowing from either of these experiences. This comparison is viewed as a facing of the multiplicities they both present. The synthesis is an illumination of both experiences with each transfigured through their mutual presence in the "knowing place" of the comparer.[17]