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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

Irvin D. Yalom

The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Attempt Difficult Evidence Grow Health Impatient Indeed Operate Profession Small
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Accident Existence Let Life Plan Possession
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Like More Unlive
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Consummated Death Die Life Lose One Terror
Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Anything Away Better never Nothing Offer Take
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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Ambition Awareness Death Drive Fact More People Temper Twenty
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Choice Construct Man Out Spirit
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
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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Absorbed Being Distinction Heidegger Make Thing Way World
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death Form Mode Number Other Primary Specialties Take Transcendence
Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Box Compassionate Enter Life Maner More Pandora Re Richer
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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Important Pathology People Relationship Student Teach Work

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