To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMA sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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