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Irvin D. Yalom is an American author renowned for his psychological novels and philosophical reflections. His works delve into the essence of human existence, as well as psychotherapy and interpersonal relationships.

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All Ifs Death Anxiety People Patient Psychology Therapists Thinking Therapy Way Life Looks Want Dies Oneself Persons Awareness Despair Existential Growth

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“I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.”

Way Want Causes Views Comfort Offers Patient Offering Personal Views

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.”

Ifs World Way Example Concern Everyday Worried Distinction Latter Privacy Petty Secrecy Triviality Heidegger

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.”

Ifs Way Oneself Admire Behave Love Oneself

Book:Existential Psychotherapy

Source: Existential Psychotherapy

“A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally”

Way Would Be Willing Messages Experiments Curious Live Life Repeats

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”

Way Mother Anxiety One Way Temper Anguish Finitude

Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. 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. Only 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.”

Ifs Men Way Reason Able Form Clear Highest Agree Strive Determine Favors Honestly Ignorant Strife True Friendship Free Man Accommodate Changing Myself

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.”

People Way Giving Persons Two Fall Passion Differences Love Is Standing Infinite Falling In Love Sparks Single Person

Book:Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Source: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

About the Author

Born: June 13, 1931
Known for: Author
Quotes: 142

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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of DeathRelated source material

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of PsychotherapyRelated source material

When Nietzsche WeptRelated source material

Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of PsychotherapyRelated source material

The Schopenhauer CureRelated source material

Existential PsychotherapyRelated source material

The Spinoza ProblemRelated source material

Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of PsychotherapyRelated source material

Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and TransformationRelated source material

The Gift Of Therapy (Revised And Updated Edition): An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patientsRelated source material

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