Human difficulty does not arise primarily from narrative trauma in the autobiographical sense. Rather, it arises from conditioning embedded within the organism itself. The obstacle is not the absence of insight. Insight, in many cases, functions as an additional layer of defense. The individual can explain patterns indefinitely while the physiological structures that sustain those patterns remain unchanged.

— Sirius White, speaking on Reich’s “Character Armor” and Hyatt’s “Method of Undoing,” the objective is the dismantling of automatic patterns of tension, inhibition, fantasy, and obedience that have been mistaken for personality.