To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMLive your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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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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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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