What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
IRVIN D. YALOMThough the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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