Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming 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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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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