The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOMA curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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One 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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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