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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Accept Accuse Act Another Being Fully Oneself Reveal Therapeutic Vehicle
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Like More Unlive
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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