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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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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.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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