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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Irvin D. Yalom

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else...

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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

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Born: June 13, 1931 (age 94)

Bio: Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Known for:

When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
Lying on the couch (1996)
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel (2012)
The Schopenhauer cure (2005)

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