Staring at the Sun
Staring at the Sun内容简介
Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experience"-a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.
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Now she learned that the lushness of possessions had sheltered her from the starkness of existence.
As I shall emphasize several times in these pages, a common but often unappreciated part of mourning is the survivor's personal confrontation with his or her own death.
...and Sartre, in his autobiography: "I was going quietly to my end...certain that the last burst of my heart would be inscribed on the last page of my work and that death would be taking only a dead man."
"Alternatives exclude" is the underlying reason many people are driven to distraction by the neccessity to make a decision
“Good ideas, even ideas of power, are rarely sufficient in a single shot: repeated doses are neccessary.”
Therapists have always operated under the assumption that the truth one discovers for oneself has far greater power than a truth delivered by others.
isolation only exists in isolation; once shared, it evaporates.
Such is the power of repression, that exquisitely seletive process that —— in determining what one remembers, what one forgets —— is instrumental in constructing the unique personal world of each of us.
Consummate your life. Fulfill your potential. Now I understand Nietzsche's counsel more fully. My own character, Julius, had shown me the way——a potent and unusual instance of life imitating fiction.
It's a pitch black night. I'm alone in my boat floating in a harbor. I see the lights of many other boats. I know I can't reach them, can't join with them. but how comforting it is to see all those other lights bobbing in the harbor.
Let me adapt some of Nietzsche's words and say this to you: 'To become wise you must learn to listen to the wild dogs barking in your cellar.'
Therapy is always an alternating sequence of interaction and reflection upon that interaction.
the positive therapeutic alliance is a prerequisite for the effectiveness of any therapy. It is not the end, but a means to the end.
work on empathy is bidrectional: not only must you experience the patient's world, but you must also help patients develop their own empathy for others.
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