Episode 253: Insight is not enough

Before I began my training as a therapist, I believed that
insight was the royal road to mental health. The belief was that
if folks just understood why they do the things that they do,
they would be able to use that awareness to solve whatever
difficulty they happened to be facing. However, my time at an
outpatient substance abuse clinic disabused me of that belief.
During that time, I worked with many alcoholics who were
incredibly insightful into the nature of their addictions, but
who remained addicts nonetheless. I'll speak more about this in
this episode.


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