The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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 therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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