Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
IRVIN D. YALOMEvery person must choose how much truth he can stand.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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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.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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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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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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