…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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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