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.
IRVIN D. YALOMMany people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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