Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
IRVIN D. YALOMIn 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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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… 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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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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