If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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