If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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 piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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.
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