Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
IRVIN D. YALOM…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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