Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
IRVIN D. YALOMAnd if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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