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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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