This is the work of psychotherapy: to learn both to assume an identity and to call it into question. It is one of the principal ways that talking helps."
~ Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Schopenhauer's Porcupines

I think good psychotherapy is also meant to be more like LARPing, improvisation and participation within a narrative framework, than like an manualized treatment. This distinction is where American psychotherapy went wrong.

These thoughts are not unrelated to the Buber quote I posted.

11 blocks for Thunder midway through the 3rd quarter is ridiculous for a team where all 3 bigs are out. So much length everywhere on the floor.

has no choice but to unite himself in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self."