Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A HELL” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
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… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Rollo May quipped that anxiety about nothing tries to become anxiety about something. In other words, anxiety about nothingness quickly attaches itself to a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years hence they… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
