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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Endlessm Still Greatest Instrument Learn Understanding Work
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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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