Making a Difference in Patients'' Lives - Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting

Zusatztext 95831904 Informationen zum Autor Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She also supervises at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis , she is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004), and has written papers on the analyst's experiences of loneliness, loss, joy, and other aspects of the clinician's feelings. Zusammenfassung Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. This work explores how the power to feel can become the power to change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Meaningfully Impacting Patients' Lives. Basic Assumptions About Human Emotions. Empathic Recovery of Emotional Balance. Empathic Responses to Shame. Facing Painful Regret. Joy as a Universal Antidote. Grief. Empowering and Disorienting Anger. Special Section - Training: Nurturing the Capacity to Make a Difference. Thinking Analytically. Emotional Preparation for Practicing Psychoanalysis. Developing the Personal Strengths of a Psychoanalyst in Sum: Making a Difference.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Buechler, Sandra (William Alanson White Institute Buechler, Buechler Sandra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780881634433
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-443-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)