I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
IRVIN D. YALOMWe take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming 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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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