If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
IRVIN D. YALOMI must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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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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