In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis (Casey Schwartz, 2015)

"I wonder to what extent getting better, for any patient, actually depends on gaining insight. We all have moments of realizing some new truth about ourselves, a discovery that feels, in its revelatory power, as if it should transform the way we go about our lives. And then: it doesn’t. Instead, we go right back to normal, armed with our new bit of knowledge. Isn’t it possible, then, that insight…