The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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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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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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