The essence of my being is that I am subjective awareness continually in process. . . In short, I am no thing, nothing. I am solely the process of my being—as an example, I am the process of writing these words, but I am not the content of the words or the ideas they express. I am the being aware of writing, the choosing of ways of expressing thoughts, the hoping for communication, the enjoying of the emergence in thoughts and images of what I have experienced. James Bugental The Search for Existential Indentity: Patient-Therapist Dialogues in Humanistic Psychotherapy I