One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
IRVIN D. YALOMI feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear 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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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