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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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I 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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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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