All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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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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