Just as I have named authenticity and attachment as two basic needs, so Bruce has identified people’s “vital need for social belonging with their equally vital needs for individual autonomy and achievement” and calls the marriage of the two psychosocial integration.3 A sane culture, Bruce and I agree, would have psychosocial integration as both an aim and a norm. Authenticity and attachment would cease to be in conflict: there would be no fundamental tension between belonging and being oneself.
