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.
IRVIN D. YALOMPandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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