Living safely is dangerous.
IRVIN D. YALOMOne doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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