Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen 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?
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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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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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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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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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