Often I don’t know much about what I am thinking until I write it, and so what you read in this book has been invaluable to my sense of sanity and my ongoing attempt to make sense out of psychotherapy, what Freud rightly called “the impossible profession,” and more generally the necessity of surviving what Peter Berger (1961) called “the precarious vision.” Thank God I stumbled upon writing. In truth, both the process and product of writing has enriched my life — in fact saved my life — in ways impossible to overstate.
(Cushman, Philip. Travels with the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series) (p. 4). Taylor and Francis. Kindle edition) (italics added)
