It's the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship...my professional rosary.Irvin D. Yalom
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.Irvin D. Yalom
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.Irvin D. Yalom
Therapists deal with human inevitability: with life and death, hope and fear, striving and failure, love and hatred, pain and joy, growth and decay, fate and freedom.Irvin D. Yalom
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.Irvin D. Yalom
Experience has taught me that my behavior in therapy must be authentic, not role-played, and yet be entirely in the patient’s service. Hard as they may be to reconcile, I have been convinced that both are necessary requirements.Irvin D. Yalom
More stunning than anything I have ever encountered in my life with patients or my own personal life, is the power of the relationship – how much patients crave, need, blossom in, and, occasionally, chafe in, relationship.Irvin D. Yalom
The authentic self is the soul made visible.Irvin D. Yalom
Create a new therapy for each patient.Irvin D. Yalom
Learn to live in the present. Release the pain of the past and fear of the future.Irvin D. Yalom
Therapy should not be theory-driven, but relationship-driven.Irvin D. Yalom