Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
IRVIN D. YALOMOne doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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