To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMMy 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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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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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 pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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