Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
IRVIN D. YALOMSome have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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 the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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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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