Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin David Yalomis an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth13 June 1931
CountryUnited States of America
mean growth love-means
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
real thinking games
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
heal healer wounded
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
death children trying
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
pain growth want
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
people curiosity
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
may helping accepted
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
tragedy height looks
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
persons
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.