… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
IRVIN D. YALOMIndeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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