To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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