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.
IRVIN D. YALOMLife is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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 pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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