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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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