Even though many therapeutic orientations hang their hat upon insight—knowledge about oneself and one’s patterns—I have found that insight can be flat. In other words, there are many ways in which learning truths about oneself is not helpful. As an example, there is an old psychoanalytic joke about a man who goes to analysis because he is wetting the bed. Twenty years later, he is still wetting the bed—but now he knows why. There are certainly positives to insight, or self-kn