{"title":"Sandra Buechler","description":"\u003cp\u003eSandra Buechler's work explores profound themes within \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophy and psychology\u003c\/strong\u003e, inviting readers to reflect on the deeper aspects of human experience. Her thoughtful approach sheds light on the subtle ways individuals influence and enrich one another’s lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful and compassionate examinations of personal growth, mental well-being, and the impact we have on others, as exemplified in titles like \u003cem\u003eMaking a Difference in Patients' Lives\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"making-a-difference-in-patients-lives-by-sandra-buechler-9780881634945","title":"Making a Difference in Patients' Lives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the title of her book, \u003cem\u003eMaking a Difference in Patients' Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually lived. Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. How can the immense power of lived emotional experience be harnessed in the service of helping patients live richer, more satisfying lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost patients come into treatment because they are too anxious, or depressed, or don't seem to feel alive enough. Something is wrong with what they feel, or don't feel. Given that the emotions operate as a system, with the intensity of each affecting the level of all the others, it makes sense that it would be an emotional experience that would have enough power to change what we feel. But, ironically, the wider culture, and even psychoanalysts, seem to favour \"solutions\" that aim to mute emotionality, rather than relying on one emotion to modify another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe turn to pharmaceutical, cognitive, or behavioural change to make a difference in how life feels. Because we are afraid of emotional intensity, we cut off our most powerful source of regulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn clear, jargon-free prose that utilises both clinical vignettes and excerpts from poetry, art, and literature, Buechler explores how the power to feel can become the power to change. Through an active empathic engagement with the patient and an awareness of the healing potential inherent in each of our fundamental emotions, the clinician can make a substantial difference in the patient's capacity to embrace life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606592078060,"sku":"9780881634945","price":106.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780881634945-making-a-difference-in-patients-lives.jpg?v=1778154322"},{"product_id":"making-a-difference-in-patients-lives-by-sandra-buechler-9780881634433","title":"Making a Difference in Patients' Lives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication!\u003c\/em\u003e Within the title of her book, \u003cem\u003eMaking a Difference in Patients' Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. However, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany clinicians and therapists have turned towards emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. How can the immense power of lived emotional experience be harnessed in the service of helping patients live richer, more satisfying lives? Most patients come into treatment because they are too anxious, or depressed, or don't seem to feel alive enough. Something is wrong with what they feel, or don't feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiven that emotions operate as a system, with the intensity of each affecting the level of all the others, it makes sense that it would be an emotional experience that would have enough power to change what we feel. Ironically, the wider culture, and even psychoanalysts, seem to favour \"solutions\" that aim to mute emotionality, rather than relying on one emotion to modify another. We turn to pharmaceutical, cognitive, or behavioural change to make a difference in how life feels. Because we are afraid of emotional intensity, we cut off our most powerful source of regulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn clear, jargon-free prose that utilises both clinical vignettes and excerpts from poetry, art, and literature, Buechler explores how the power to feel can become the power to change. Through active empathic engagement with the patient and an awareness of the healing potential inherent in each of our fundamental emotions, the clinician can make a substantial difference in the patient's capacity to embrace life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606592504044,"sku":"9780881634433","price":353.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780881634433-making-a-difference-in-patients-lives.jpg?v=1778154334"},{"product_id":"understanding-and-treating-patients-in-clinical-psychoanalysis-by-sandra-buechler-9780415856461","title":"Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature\u003c\/i\u003e describes the problematic ways people learn to cope with life’s fundamental challenges, such as maintaining self-esteem, bearing loss, and growing old. People tend to deal with the challenges of being human in characteristic, repetitive ways. Descriptions of these patterns in diagnostic terms can be at best dry, and at worst confusing, especially for those starting training in any of the clinical disciplines. To try to appeal to a wider audience, this book illustrates each coping pattern using vivid, compelling fiction whose characters express their dilemmas in easily accessible, evocative language. Sandra Buechler uses these examples to show some of the ways we complicate our lives and, through reimagining different scenarios for these characters, she illustrates how clients can achieve greater emotional health and live their lives more productively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Munro, Mann, James, O’Connor, Chopin, McCullers, Carver, and the many other authors represented here, Buechler shows how their keen observational short fiction portrays self-hurtful styles of living. She explores how human beings cope using schizoid, paranoid, grandiose, hysteric, obsessive, and other defensive styles. Each is costly, in many senses, and each limits the possibility for happiness and fulfilment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e offers insights into what living with and working with problematic behaviours really means through a series of examples of the major personality disorders as portrayed in literature. Through these fictitious examples, clinicians and trainees, and undergraduate and graduate students can gain a greater understanding of how someone becomes paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic, obsessive, or depressive, and how that affects them, and those around them, including the mental health professionals who work with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608224612588,"sku":"9780415856461","price":388.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/07f9110cbd3082f6cf128f9f5826249b.jpg?v=1778201893"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sandra-buechler.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}