Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
IRVIN D. YALOMPsychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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 loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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