I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
IRVIN D. YALOMHidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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