Absolutely. My therapist has his strengths and weaknesses. Offsetting his many fine and useful qualities is a weakness in interpretations and insight. He's not one of those therapists who says something that leads me to sudden understanding.

The advantage is that if one of the people in that room is going to have a brilliant insight, or tie two topics together, or something of that sort, it's going to be me. I find a lot of advantages in that. Not least of which is that I'm reasonably stubborn, and probably accept my own brilliant insights better than I'd accept his. But also it forces me to think for myself. Sometimes he thinks I may be on to something, sometimes he points out the holes in my theory. So he is involved.