“If ever there was a time when self-reflection was the absolutely necessary and only right thing, it is now, in our present catastrophic epoch. Yet whoever reflects upon himself is bound to strike upon the frontiers of the unconscious, which contains what above all else he needs to know. ”
Starting therapy is embarking on a journey of attending to ourselves. I see psychotherapy as a profoundly political act. By looking at what limits us, at the ways in which we are our own worse enemy (and then project that on others), we become freer and more able to engage in the world with compassion. More than ever I think it is essential to heed what Carl Gustav Jung wrote during World War One, quoted above.