The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else... — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety 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 Change Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom Credo Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago… — Irvin D. Yalom Books 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… — Irvin D. Yalom Hell Copy Share Image
“Visele sunt ca un mister incantator, care implora sa fie inteles[...]Visele sunt doar deseuri intamplatoare, excretii nocturne ale mintii” — Irvin D. Yalom Amor Copy Share Image
“keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath we draw wards off death that… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example: Rockabye, Baby,… — Irvin D. Yalom Lullabies Copy Share Image
The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a… — Irvin D. Yalom Awareness Copy Share Image
“She may have played her role, but you, what role did you play? Were you, and I, so different from her? Did… — Irvin D. Yalom Beauty Copy Share Image
“If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you… — Irvin D. Yalom Failure Copy Share Image
“Excessive attachment either to material goods, to other individuals, or even attachment to the concept of ‘I’ is the major source of… — Irvin D. Yalom Human suffering Copy Share Image
“The power and omnipresence of the sexual drive: Next to the love of life it shows itself here as the strongest and… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about… — Irvin D. Yalom Dreams Copy Share Image
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“If we do not want to be a plaything in the hands of every rogue and the object of every fool’s ridicule,… — 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 Goals 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 Approach Copy Share Image
“We poor mortals, we fellow sufferers, are such victims of biology that we fill our lives with guilt about natural acts…and that… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“When we wake discouraged in the middle of the night, enemies that we had defeated long ago come back to haunt us.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to… — Irvin D. Yalom Emotion Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he’d spend several of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers,… — Irvin D. Yalom Deathbed 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 Anxious Copy Share Image
One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom Conscience Copy Share Image
“But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years… — Irvin D. Yalom Crest Copy Share Image
“I have always found quite useful Freud's formulation that the dream borrows building blocks from the day residue, but that for images… — Irvin D. Yalom Building blocks 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 Close relationship Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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