Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

mortality

• I shudder as I realize all of this exists now only in memory… 'If nothing endures, what sense does life have?'

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• No man, if sincere, would ever wish to go through it again—he was a man desperately in need of therapy.

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work-as-meaning

• Michael emailed: 'I need to see you—this article has ignited a lot of things, both good and bad.' I am the first to speak.

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• I have led a great many therapy groups over the decades… the one that looms largest is a leaderless group meeting every two weeks for twenty-four years.

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self-and-identity

• It remains a mystery why my parents never attempted to teach me Hebrew or impart Jewish religious tenets… I persisted in asking irreverent questions.

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• 'Past remembrances and future longings produce only disquiet.' So much truth in those words, but at such great cost. I don't think I'm able or willing to pay so much.

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