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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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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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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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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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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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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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