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Perhaps the key benefit of deep philotherapy is in the shift of identity which occurs in the individual, where a part of the identity, habits and values of the group, or simply of the therapist to the extent that their interaction is truly organic, is taken over by the counselee. People actually emerge out of therapy, both generally (standard psychotherapy) or specifically from deep philotherapy, with a changed identity, and the extent and nature of that change accounts for the longevity of the change in their choices and actions which will increase the quality of their lives. Thus, the change sought after by therapy is not exhausted in learning: it is a substantive change of who we are that is induced by experience, including, crucially, emotional experience, which arises from the touching together of the two persons: the client, and the therapist. This alchemy cannot be faked, it cannot be substituted by learning, by ‘technique’ or whatever else mystical entity that various ‘schools’ of psychotherapy propose as their particular strengths.
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