There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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