…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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 more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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