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.
IRVIN D. YALOMAll 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.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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