Irvin D. Yalom quotes
Irvin D. Yalom is an American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author renowned for his work in existential psychotherapy. His writings, both academic and fiction, have influenced generations of therapists and mental health professionals. He continues to inspire readers worldwide with his insights into the human experience. Here are 12 of his quotes:
One of the most important things was from a patient who said to me what a pity it was that he had to wait until now, when he was riddled with death, to learn how to live. And I have used that phrase many times: hoping that if you introduce people, in an appropriate way, to their mortality that might change the way they live and allow them to trivialise the trivia in their life.
Irvin D. Yalom
What an existential approach is about is positing that our bad feelings, our dysphoria, our despair, our anxiety emanates not only from our own life history and all the traumas we may have had in the past, and not only from the figures that we have introjected - many of these figures being unloving, or uncaring, or neurotic on their own parts - and emanates not only from our current life crises, but it emanates also, also, from our confrontation with the existential facts of life, with our confrontation with the human condition.
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
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Occupation: American Psychotherapist
Born: June 13, 1931
Quotes count: 12
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