Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

About Irvin D. Yalom:

Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
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Derin bir adamın dosta ihtiyacı vardır, dostu yoksa bile hiç olmazsa tanrıları vardır. Ama benim ne dostum ne de tanrılarım var. Ben de sizin gibi büyük bir özlem içindeyim; kusursuz dostluklar kurma özlemi, inter pares dostluk, eşitle...

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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

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Zaman zaman, var olan en yalnız adam olduğumu düşünüyorum. Dediğiniz gibi bunun, insanların varlığı ya da yokluğuyla iligisi yok, üstelik yalnızlığımı elimden aldıkları halde gerçekten benimle olmayanlardan da nefret ederim.” �...

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Aşık seven kişi değildir; aslında o sevdiği kişinin mutlak sahibi olmayı amaçlar. Bütün isteği tüm dünyayı o değerli malından soyutlamaktır. Altınları başında nöbet tutan ejderha kadar alçak ruhludur. Dünyayı falan sevmez, t...

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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

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Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

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

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Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one's midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achievement, dependent on will alone. This comforting ...

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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

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Author Bio

  • NameIrvin D. Yalom
  • DescriptionAmerican psychotherapist
  • BornJune 13, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Psychiatrist