Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
IRVIN D. YALOMSelf-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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 loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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