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Making a Difference in Patients' Lives
Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting
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This book is ideal for clinical professionals, psychotherapists, and students in psychology and psychoanalysis seeking to enhance their understanding of emotional dynamics in therapy. It also appeals to readers interested in the philosophical and psychological aspects of emotional regulation and healing.
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.
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Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, 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.
Many 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.
Given 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.
In 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.
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Praised for its practical yet poetic approach, the book is recognised for deeply exploring both the personal and professional aspects of therapy. Karen J. Maroda commends Buechler for advocating deep emotional experience as essential for change, while Carroll E. Izard highlights the sophisticated discussion of emotion-cognition interactions and the adaptive role of emotions in behaviour change. The volume is seen as influential and instructive for clinicians seeking to integrate emotion theory into psychodynamic therapy.
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ISBN: 9780881634433
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 April 2008
Country: United States
Imprint: Analytic Press,U.S.
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 578g
Pages: 336
About the Author
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.
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