To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMLook out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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