The Importance of Individuality

Psychotherapists are familiar with the collectively adapted person who has everything and does everything that could reasonably be required as a guarantee of health, but yet is ill. Individuals afflicted with this type of neurosis need to become more normal in the sense of cultivating the basic skills needed to function successfully in society. Such individuals are afraid of their individuality and so fail to heed the call of their conscience to develop the idiosyncratic side of their nature. To be healed, the all too normal neurotic must experience a symbolic death, or the letting go of much that is familiar and comfortable,.