My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
IRVIN D. YALOMAll 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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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.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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