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Journal of Religion and Health
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health 4/2010

01-12-2010 | Book Review

Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment. By Sandra Buechler. Softcover 194 pp. The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 2004. ISBN 0-88163-377-1; and Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting. By Sandra Buechler. Softcover 317 pp. Routledge, New York, NY, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88163-494-5

Author: Ruth H. Livingston, Ph.D.

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 4/2010

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Sandra Buechler’s two books on the uses of emotion and emotional experience in psychoanalysis evoke the incredible richness of “working” intimately with others—whether spiritually, medically or psychologically. A training and supervising psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City (full disclosure: this reviewer is a colleague), Buechler begins with the declaration that psychoanalytic treatment is “inherently a life-and-death struggle,” requiring “enormous energy and commitment from both participants” (2004, p. 2). Needed is a powerful connection with our emotional core, a connection that then “links all our experiences [of] being human with our conduct of treatment” (2004, p. 6). …
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Buechler, S. (2008a). The legacies of shaming psychoanalytic candidates. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 44, 56–64.
Buechler, S. (2008b). Uses and abuses of power in training: Book reviews. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 44, 167–173.
Buechler, S. (2009). A field of dreams—The ideal psychoanalytic institute and training: Introduction to special issue. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 45, 287–291.
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Title
Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment. By Sandra Buechler. Softcover 194 pp. The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 2004. ISBN 0-88163-377-1; and Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting. By Sandra Buechler. Softcover 317 pp. Routledge, New York, NY, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88163-494-5
Author
Ruth H. Livingston, Ph.D.
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-010-9352-9

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