In general, the professional system for protecting the resources of a psychologist, formed and systemically substantiated in modern scientific psychology, is very loyal to the specialist: the boundaries of the session are indicated, guidelines are given for the boundaries of emotional contact with the client, and other “anti-voice” measures are given. All this is correct. Let’s look at it through the eyes of the client .That is, what is a specialist like, dressed in the armor of professional defenses against the painful conditions of a person who has come to him/her for therapy/consultation? The maxim of a famous colleague: “The client should be helped, not sympathized!” Said at a lecture at a university to students of the Faculty of Psychology. This is the attitude. They also say: “When you go to a surgeon, don’t ask for sympathy, but to put in a plaster cast” (for example) Agree, the target objects that a surgeon and a psychologist work with are slightly different..) And a surgeon who is not capable of When working psychologically with a patient, he is not a good doctor. People call such people “butchers.” That’s why the question is: Can a psychologist with disabled empathy help a client efficiently? In dull emotional self-defense...However, the reason for such protection is more than justified. The human psyche is a poorly studied territory. The central nervous system and the internal nervous system are only being learned, and there is no talk yet of a complete understanding of all their processes. Accordingly, the psychologist enters the territory of the client’s psyche like a stalker into the “zone” where he/she can expect phenomena that he/she is not always ready to encounter. Once, while talking on this topic with a familiar specialist in Buddhist philosophy, I heard the following answer: “You (psychologists) are just people. And you have to solve superhuman problems..."You know, it seems to me that he accurately expressed the reason for the development and purpose of systems of professional psychological protection of specialists. Considering the categorically secular nature of the approaches to, to put it mildly, non-secular phenomena of consultative cases. , everything becomes even more interesting. But the client came for help. An especially difficult client. And he does not have to know that after the paid hour the connection he just established will be broken, and perhaps will not happen again.. He/she will no longer need it. All this is about the highest spiritual responsibility of a psychologist for the quality result of his work. Which can sometimes only take place outside the “Procrustean bed” of accepted patterns of psychological work. For we are dealing with dynamic, constantly changing processes of a person’s inner world, with a huge number of variables.