Carl Jung
Its is presumptuous to think that we can always say what is good or bad for the patient.
Perhaps he knows something is really bad and does it anyway, and then gets a bad conscience. This may be very good indeed.
Perhaps fate or the unconscious or God had to give him a hard knock and roll him in the dirt, because only such a drastic experience could strike home, pull him out of his infantilism, and make him more mature.
