Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
IRVIN D. YALOMReligion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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