ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers whether authenticity might be a key to therapeutic change, whether it contributes to what works, whether it helps—to use Wittgenstein's metaphor—the fly to escape from the fly-bottle. She examines a number of ways to unravel the question of authenticity as a therapeutic tool and to ask what one is intending to bring about in the patient? The author attempts to combine medical–nutritional, psychotherapeutic, and psycho-educational treatment for illnesses that involve multiple systems—physical, psychological, and social. She uses the terms "psychotic process" and "other mind" to mean the same phenomenon as that described as "internal cohabitation" by Michael Sinason, who first outlined psychoanalytical model. The living whole constantly changes and evolves in a ceaseless evolving process. This is so for the individual, for the therapeutic dyad, for the society, and the universe. All are interrelated. Authenticity is a wholeness that one constantly strives for, to enhance one's life and the lives of others.
