To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
IRVIN D. YALOMOnly free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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