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 My life has been a testimony to know thyself. I’ve spent most of my time on this planet figuring out its misadventures, and helping other people do the same thing as a psychotherapist. In the process I’ve discovered the power of self-understanding. Though knowing one’s self has no explosive, destructive power…it’s power to change human suffering and satisfy human need is much greater than war or politics.
And yet psychotherapy is only as good as the self-understanding of the therapist. In fact this is true of all parts of life. The more one understands their life emotionally, as well as thoughtfully, the greater benefit they bring to anyone in their vicinity.
I believe the second half of the 21st century will be dominated, not by technology but by psychology finally coming into its own—not as a diagnostician of pathology but as a purveyor of life-wisdom.
If knowing thyself were the foundation of education the world would look very different than it does now. Psychology has been around for over a hundred years. But it’s been kept obscured in the back wards of medicine groping around for morality’s definitions of self, which is what ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ represent. Instead of fulfilling this ancient yearning—know thyself—psychology hides its best, most revealing information within the confines of a profession’s private language. Such guild-forming concealment is always designed to protect the innocent from new and provocative information that we all desperately need, but can get only by paying fees.
The written works presented in this website are designed to expose that special information to the light of today as clearly as possible by rendering it to a perspective available to anyone, mostly by eliminating any reference to pathology.  It reveals how all symptoms of psychic dysfunction are normal to all of us as a part of human evolution. My two most defining books are nonfiction. But I’m also a storyteller, a writer of novels.
In modern times it’s commonly believed that people can behave any way they want. When the psychological truth is that the traits and habits anyone possesses define and limit what they’re capable of doing, and how it will be expressed. A great deal of modern fiction is psychologically false, meaning it could never happen. My stories ring with psychological truthfulness, thereby illustrating my views of human nature expressed didactically in my nonfiction books.
copyright© 2007, 2008 Don Fenn. All rights reserved.
Updated 6/14/08
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