Beyond perpetual happiness.

We arrive seeking symptom relief. We leave as archaeologists of our own pain, excavating meaning from suffering's debris.

Beyond perpetual happiness.

Clinical work confronts us with a fundamental irony: patients seek therapy to eliminate symptoms but discover its true value only when abandoning the fantasy of absolute cure. Like someone entering a hospital for a broken bone and leaving with a complete physical examination, effective therapy operates through paradox—relieving symptoms while exposing deeper structural vulnerabilities that demand attention.

The analytic space functions as relational laboratory: precisely where patients reproduce their binding patterns, they encounter possibilities for transformation. Yesterday's protective defenses become today's suffocating limitations; narratives that once provided structure now impose restriction. Agency emerges not as absolute self-mastery but as capacity to inhabit ambiguity without disintegration—learning to dance with uncertainty rather than demanding certainty.

A truth insists in every clinic: feeling fully requires distance from feelings themselves. Patients who systematically flee pain end up anesthetized to all experience, emotional vampires unable to digest joy or sorrow. Therapy transforms us into archaeologists of our own suffering: we don't become immune to pain but learn to convert it into raw material for meaning-making.

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