Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
IRVIN D. YALOMLook out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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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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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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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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