On Being Normal And other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Diagnostics by Paul Verhaeghe

Historically, psychotherapy began with the aim of consciousness- raising and insight; later, the emphasis shifted towards..... insight and cognitive restructuring. [......] Where the focus is solely on insight and knowledge, it will result in a caricatural subject who "knows" perfectly well why it is doing certain things, but without this knowledge effecting the slightest change in daily life.[2] I begin with a short quote from the final passages of Paul Verhaeghe's book, On Being Normal and Other Disorders, which perhaps presents us with a note of caution concerning what clinicians of all creeds need to be alert to and which indicates the book's primary aim.…