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

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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Religion 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.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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