When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
IRVIN D. YALOMThe therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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