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Screenworld is about information, most of it useless to any particular human being. Psychotherapy is about meaning—which, in the end, the human animal cannot live without. Psychotherapy is two flesh-and-blood, breathing, speaking, silent, smiling, frowning, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, sometimes yelling humans, present to each other as a Screenworld facsimile can't be.

Whatever its flaws and faults, and however far it has yet to go, psychotherapy stands for the ancient truth that the journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet, and, as Basho wrote, "The journey itself is the home."

Michael Ventura's biweekly column, "Letters at 3AM," is published in The Austin Chronicle. His website, michaelventura.org, has a wide selection of his writing. Letters to the Editor about this article may be e-mailed to letters@psychnetworker.org.

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