While there are many goals and definitions of what successful treatment looks like, I believe the following quote best captures what we are trying to achieve.

 Although one’s skills in the art of living, one’s character style, are never perfect, the more one can laugh when happy, cry when sad, use anger to set firm limits, make love passionately, and give and receive tenderness fully and openly, the further one is from suffering. And the fuller one is with the joy of existence, the more generous one can be towards others.  Leigh McCullough Vaillant