To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMPsychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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