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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Irvin D. Yalom

You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
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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Effect Growth Life Local Patient Pleasure Ripple Salutary Take Touch
Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Come Despair Dream Even Many More People True
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.
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Far Fear Group Once Patient Powerful Reason Reluctant Therapist Therapy Thing Too Work
Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Anything Away Better never Nothing Offer Take
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Cease Climb Enough Height Loo Reach Tragedy Tragic We
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Awareness Despair Pay Price Self
The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Anxiety Death Disappointment Fulfilled Have Many never People Fuel Potential
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Anything Beter Met never Something Take Way
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Away Concern Cure Dear Death Interpersonal Meet Neurotic Psychoneurious Rejection Seem Sense
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Compreghend Oneself Order Our Preoccuped
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Another Crave Dream Love More People Possess
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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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Creative Discipline Member Orthodoxy Outgrow Ultimate
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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

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