“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they… — 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
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
“I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The establishment of an authentic relationship with patients, by its very nature, demands that we forego the power of the triumvirate of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves… — 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 Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — 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 the couch… — 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' thoughts to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
