You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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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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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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