Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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