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.
IRVIN D. YALOMThere are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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If 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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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