Sandra BuechlerStill Practicing
The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career
Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, and 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 Making a Difference in Patients' Lives (Routledge, 2008), and has written papers on the analyst's experiences of loneliness, loss, joy, and other aspects of the clinician's feelings.
Introduction: The Personal Impact of Lifelong Clinical Practice. Part I:
Hardships in Training. Failing to Cultivate Clinical Strengths. Emotional
Hazards of Clinical Training. Part II: Early Career Vicissitudes.
Traumatically Overwhelming Professional Settings. Difficult Patients as
First Cases. Part III: Evolving Requirements. Ongoing Challenges to the
Clinician's Sense of Self. Cocreated Dysfunctional Patterns of Relating.
Bearing Isolation and Sorrow: Chronic Mourning in Clinicians. Part IV:
Sustaining Practice. The Ordinary Tragedies of an Analytic Life.
Transcending Shame and Sorrow. Analytic Resilience. Epilogue: Still
Practicing.
