Sofie

“The more the therapist is able to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, the less need there is for the therapist to embrace orthodoxy.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

“That was the first important discovery I made about Betty: she was desperately isolated, and she survived this isolation only by virtue of the sustaining myth that her intimate life was being lived elsewhere. Her friends, her circle of acquaintances, were not here, but elsewhere, in New York, in Texas, in the past. In fact, everything of importance was elsewhere. It was at this time that I first began to suspect that for Betty there was no “here” there.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

“though the fact, the physicality, of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy