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Willard Gaylin is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is co-founder, along with Daniel Callahan, of The Hastings Center, and was its president since its inception in 1969 to 1993, chairman through 1994, and is now a member of the board. Gaylin received his B.A. from Harvard College, his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Education from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. For some 30 years he served on its faculty as a training and supervising psychoanalyst. At one time he simultaneously served as Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical School, Professor of Psychiatry and Law at Columbia Law School and Adjunct Professor at Union Theological Seminary.

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Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

Absolute, Anxiety, Imagination, Reasoning, Symbolic, Worry

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Man, May, Men, Part, Significant

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.

Achieve, Children, Commitment, Commitments, Mean

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

Mother, Thinking, Want, Think, Nature

Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

Differences, Egalitarianism, Man, Men, Vulgar

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Endured, Goodness, Joy, Support, Survival

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Deliciously, English, Giving, Intellectual, Intrudes, Purpose

We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.

Arranged, Collage, Design, Memories, Space

All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

Enough, Final, Finals, Independence, Libertarian, Spend

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Essential, Groups, Like, Live, People, Survival

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Adult, Inspiration, Larger, Office, Space, Window

In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

Confidence, Safety, Struggle, Survival

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Civilized, Essentials, Guilt, Potential, Quality, Shame