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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Country Emest Game never People Person Real Said Therapist Think
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)
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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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