Living safely is dangerous.
IRVIN D. YALOM
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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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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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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