Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
IRVIN D. YALOMI never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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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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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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