Irvin D. Yalom

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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These are some quotes by American author Irvin D. Yalom Psychologist, who was born on June 13, 1931.

Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

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

Irvin D. Yalom

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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

Irvin D. Yalom

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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

Irvin D. Yalom

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