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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.

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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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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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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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