Therapy (n.) is less about the treatment of neuroses than about the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.
Therapy (n.) really begins when the patient sees it is no longer father and mother standing in his way, but himself.
Therapy (n.) is a running conversation with the unconscious: the initiative lies with it, but all criticism, choice and decision with consciousness.
Therapy (n.) is not a psychological water-cure for neurosis but a renewal of the personality — and how far the analyst may hide behind the shield of theory is a delicate question.
Therapy (n.) aims at a wider personality whose centre of gravity is not the ego, and which, as insight grows, may even thwart the ego's tendencies.
Therapy (n.) is decided by the stronger personality — and many a patient has assimilated the doctor, against all theory, usually to the doctor's cost.