The primary purpose of learning self-expression with accountability is to maintain our integrity.
Integrity is by definition truth and wholeness.
For the self to maintain its integrity it must be truthful and whole. This is not as simple as it sounds, however, because the self is, by nature, paradoxical, and the opposition and contradiction of paradox create a complex psychological system within the self. This complexity makes knowing our personal truth and maintaining our wholeness a very complex process. Indeed, if we are to be true to our nature and ourselves we must learn to handle our own complexity. The traditional way of handling our complexity has been to simplify it by trying to eliminate the paradox.