Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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 more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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