I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with ….

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 m….

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 ….

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something ….

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety..

I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws..

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them..

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97).

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 me….

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and dim….

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

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming wit….

There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separ….

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind..

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. W….

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the inv….

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 helpf….

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates….

Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. ….

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107).

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past..