Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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