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.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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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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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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