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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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