

Therapy provides a way of understanding one’s self in its real complexity and with its real contradictions. The feeling of I gets found through the pain of its. It is a negative form of the discovery of I. Adam Duritz, lead singer and songwriter for the band Counting Crows, suffers from a form of Depersonalization disorder. If an acute depersonalization-reaction is a terrifying flight through the hall of distorted mirrors and depersonalization-personality trait is a lasting presence in this hall with overwhelming introspection, then therapy appears as a professionally assisted walk through this hall of distorted mirrors, breaking the spell of frightening estrangement by uncovering hidden conflicts of development of self-identity. Depersonalization is a painful feeling of changed, unfamiliar and unreal I. Accordingly, therapy could be viewed as a reflection of self in a reconstructive mirror of a therapeutic relationship. Depersonalization could be seen as a reflection of the self in a distorted mirror of the patient’s disturbed consciousness.


Jackson is a prolific swimmer in his school, has always dated 'popular' girls, and is recently-elected Head Boy. Employing the predisposition of people with depersonalization to reflection, therapeutic self-analysis helps the patient develop an authentic core of self-identity. Jackson Marchetti is a good example of a male character breaking the stigma, with some help from his loved ones, and accepting his mental illness. The method of therapeutic self-inquiry is congruent to compulsive self-observation that so frequently seems to play a principal role in the pathogenesis of depersonalization.
