[phkahler]

I completely agree. In my experience, most therapists have been given very powerful tools but are not really equipped to handle them. It has led me to understanding these concepts much like you. As for this:

as Jung said, "making the unconscious conscious"

I may be misquoting but "until you make the unconcious concious, it will control you life and you will call it fate." Or something close to that. I agree, we often do things for reasons we dont fully understand. We can offer an explanation that sounds plausible, but there may well be more to it that even we haven't really explored.