In most forms of therapy, the goal is to strengthen the self. To build identity.To stabilize narrative.To create continuity across time. This is necessary—up to a point. But there is a threshold beyond which further strengthening of the self does not resolve suffering. It refines it. Because the self, no matter how well constructed, remains…
There are moments in psychological work when the illusion does not simply veil reality—it fractures. In these states, the individual is no longer identified with a single, coherent narrative self, but appears to be inhabited by competing structures. Thoughts feel inserted. Emotions feel alien. The body itself can become a stage upon which conflicting impulses…
There are moments in clinical work—quiet, almost imperceptible—when the structure of a person’s suffering reveals itself not as trauma alone, nor conditioning alone, but as something more subtle: a misidentification. Not a wound in the personality, but a confusion about what the personality is. It is here that two seemingly distant traditions—Buddhism and A Course…