Trevor, a somewhat parallel dynamic also occurs in the psychotherapy of non-delusional clients, if they proceed far enough in the therapeutic process. Dissolving a style of life and a fictional final goal, although infrequent, is possible in the later stages of Classical Adlerian psychotherapy. The experience is one of temporary disorientation, but not anxiety. This state is described more fully in the "Goal Redirection Stage" of therapy at
http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theoprac.htm. Once this new horizon opens up, the individual can begin to develop in the direction of the fully functioning person that Abraham Maslow described in
Motivation and Personality and
The Father Reaches of Human Nature. This level of "growth motivation" (as contrasted with "deficiency motion") is no longer caught in the opposing grips of an inferiority feeling and fictional final goal.