I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
IRVIN D. YALOMMy hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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