Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

Kurtuluş garantileyen şey nedir? İnsanın kendinden artık utanmıyor olması!

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Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

بگذار عشقت جاری شود و اجازه نده که تحت تأثیر عشقی باشد که ممکن است متقابلاً به‌دست آوری.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

Love is not just a passion of spark between two people, there is an 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...

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...

Lucretius’ maxim: ‘Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.

Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of relating to, and caring for, one another, one person uses another as a shield against isolation. A

Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.

پیشگویی های معجزه وار چیزی بیش از تصورهای خیالی پیامبران نیست. هر چیزی علتی طبیعی دارد. هر چه بیشتر «شناخت» پیدا کنیم، چیزهای کمتری وجود خواهند داشت که فقط خدا از آن آگاه باشد. هر چه «جهل» بیشتر باشد،...

Όποτε ο ασθενής αρχίζει ν' αναπτύσσει συμπτώματα στη σχέση του με τον θεραπευτή, τότε έχει πραγματικά αρχίσει η θεραπεία, και η εξερεύνηση αυτών των συμπτωμάτων θ' ανοίξει το δρόμο για τα κεντρικά του...

اسپینوزا پیرو عقیده رستگاری همه انسانها بود. او پیش بینی کرد که مذهب های رایج رو به زوال خواهند رفت، چرا که شمار فزاینده ای از انسانها، خود را وقف جست و جوی کاملترین فهم از گیتی می کنند. اسپینوزا افضل...

Ένα απ' τα αξιώματα της ψυχοθεραπείας είναι ότι τα σημαντικά συναισθήματα που έχει ο ένας για τον άλλον μεταδίδονται πάντα μέσα από κάποιο κανάλι - αν όχι με λεκτικά, τότε με μη λεκτικά σήματα. Από τό...

People say strange, incoherent things in such a state. Her words do not strike me as incoherent or random. You suggested, Doctor Breuer, that I should simply interject any comments that occur to me. L...

Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we ascend. Whoever pursues this pass should know no fear but must leave everything behind and confidently...

Psychiatric cure is the expanding of the self to such final effect that the patient as known to himself is much the same person as the patient behaving to others.

Όσο κι αν μ' αρέσει να κάνω ομαδική θεραπεία, το μέγεθος αυτό έχει ένα σημαντικό μειονέκτημα για μένα: συχνά δεν επιτρέπει την εξερεύνηση βαθύτερων υπαρξιακών θεμάτων. Πολλές φορές μέσα στην ομάδα παρ...

Sizi tutan bir şey var -bir korku, bir zaaf-, öfkenizi ifade etmenizi engelliyor. Bunun yerine yufka yürekliliğinizden gurur duyuyorsunuz. Mecburen yaptığınız şeyleri erdeme dönüştürmeye çalışıyorsunu...

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old...

پرسشِ چه معنایی در زندگی است؟ در درجه اول این فرض را پدید می‌آورد که معنایی در زندگی هست که نتوانسته‌ایم آن را بیابید که با دیدگاه اگزیستانسیال که انسان عامل و فاعل معنا بخش زندگی است، در تعارض است.