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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.

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And 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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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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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 more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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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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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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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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