The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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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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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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