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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Far Fear Group Once Patient Powerful Reason Reluctant Therapist Therapy Thing Too Work
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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Effect Growth Life Local Patient Pleasure Ripple Salutary Take Touch
The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Anxiety Death Disappointment Fulfilled Have Many never People Fuel Potential
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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Also Day Decade Distant Feel Future Himself Man One Psychiatrist Spent Strongly
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing
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
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Being Fall Give Large Limited Love Mode Person Rather Relate Single Way
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Acute Best Every Experience Impatient Knowledge Offer Some Therapy
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Enough Expression Fear Feeling Interest Opposite Some Write

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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