The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
IRVIN D. YALOMNone 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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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