When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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 death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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