ABSTRACT
Les and Lynn were hard-working professionals committed to family life. Both Lynn and Les loved their family and professional lives. Therapy provided an arena in which they could exercise their processing ability and reshape their selves. They had ideas about what therapy was like, or should be like. Les was used to acting like a big businessman. Les filled the therapy space with self-importance. Lynn wanted to contact herself at a deeper level. Action was important to Lynn. Lynn and Les had plenty of experience. Les and Lynn substituted their sense of identity for a more open relationship to experiencing. One has to be concerned not only with the fit between sets of identities and the slices of society one moves in but also with the fit between one’s alternate identities and one’s self. There are viewpoints that say self transcends society or that different aspects of society reflect different aspects of self.
