Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
IRVIN D. YALOMMarriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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