One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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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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