Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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