In this comparison my appreciation grew of how I had uniquely implemented and conceptualized clinical consultation in my work experience. I recognized through the comparison that adequate clinical consultation demands both a passionate and dispassionate phase of "I-Thou" and "I-It" relating. Without either of these forms of consultant being-in-the-situation we degrade the term "clinical" if we employ it. Consultation lends itself naturally to a collaborative cooperative relationship. The consultant is dependent on the consultee for presentation of the specifics of particular situations. The consultee is dependent on the consultant for the tailoring of general knowledge to the consultees' particular situations. The relationship if appropriately called consultation is then of necessity interdependent. In being separate from the other while feeling with the other the consultant does not lose the ability to question. Passion undealt with or identification with the consultee inhibits the clinical purpose of the consultant and of the consultation. In identification one feels as if he were the other, rather than turning to the other and feeling with him. The degree of anxiety this provokes in the consultant can prevent looking at the consultation situation and issues in an "I-It" manner. The consultant loses the ability to question. Through this comparison I was able to reflect on the graduate student nursing consultation experience in an "I-It" way. At this time it became a "clinical" experience for me. The lack of this reflective phase in this experience highlighted the reflective phase already existent in the working clinical consultation experience. The existence of this phase in the working clinical consultation experience highlighted its absence in the graduate student nursing consultation experience. My commonplace nursing world through this comparison became awarely meaningful and availed itself for conceptualization. A situation is not a "clinical" experience until the "would be" clinician can reflect, analyze, categorize, and synthesize it. Clinical Is 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."