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.
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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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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