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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.

Irvin D. Yalom

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
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death Form Mode Number Other Primary Specialties Take Transcendence
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Death Destroy Idea Physical Save Through
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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Critical Isolation Process Psychotherapy Relationship Terror Therapist
Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Endlessm Still Greatest Instrument Learn Understanding Work
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
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Brotherhood Close Friendship Live Nothing Obstruct Out Seem Small Time
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Absorbed Being Distinction Heidegger Make Thing Way World
When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Always Bad Cruisity Have People Sign Themselves
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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Always Any Cause Comfort Let Offer Patient Personal Religion Something Take View Want
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
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World
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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Book Future Idea might None Part Patient Reality Say Some Trouble
I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Brook Comfort Obvious Other Put Ripple Sense Source Stone Think
What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Country Emest Game never People Person Real Said Therapist Think

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