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.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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