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)
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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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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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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