Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice

by Sandra Buechler
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice

by Sandra Buechler

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Overview

My friend Peter Shabad quotes Soren Kierkegard, who said that life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. In thinking about the papers that make up this volume, I see themes that took a good deal of time to coalesce in my own mind. For example, I wrote papers on the analyst's hope, courage, and integrity long before they emerged in my mind as "clinical values," and formed the nucleus of my first book.

How do we each create a personally resonant way of thinking about treatment? I believe that most people who have had only graduate school training have not yet developed what I would call their signature style. They may have many styles, or techniques they have learned. But, often, they do not have a clinical identity, a core of strongly held beliefs about what is important to them in the work they do. Post graduate training is a place to develop those beliefs. To me, most of the work in any identity building task is accomplished through contrasts. By seeing what goes on in his friend's home, the ten year old child understands that his parents' way of functioning is not the only possibility. Similarly, in training, by hearing how differently various teachers and supervisors think about treatment, we can examine, validate, and modify our core beliefs about the work, and eventually forge that signature style. This style does not tell us what to say in any session. Nothing can, fortunately, I would say. Treatment always has to remain a live response to real moments with another person. It can never be reduced to formulas, recipes, manuals, pre-programmed sound bites.

We each search, our whole careers, for what really helps anyone have a richer life. For me, the poet, Rilke best captured what makes our work so hard, and so worthwhile. In his Letters to a Young Poet (pp. 23-24) Rilke says, "...at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998083391
Publisher: Ipbooks
Publication date: 10/02/2017
Pages: 322
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice

Sandra Buechler

Table of Contents

Introduction to Psychoanalytic Reflections

Section I: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training

Introduction

1. “Joining the psychoanalytic culture,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1988, 24:3, pp. 462-470).

2.. “Stress in the personal and professional development of a psychoanalyst” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1992, 20: 183-191.

3. “The legacies of shaming psychoanalytic candidates” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2008, 44:1, 56-64.

4. “A letter to my first supervisor,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2009, 45:3, pp. 422-427.

5. “Early career development,” Paper presented at Division 39, American Psychological Association, April 16, 2011.

6. “A raid on the inarticulate: Questioning assumptions in analytic training.” Paper presented at the Unbehagen, 2013.

7. “Fire in the belly” Paper presented at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society meeting, December 5, 2014

8. “Preparing candidates for the challenges of a globalized world.” Paper presented at the 2015 APCS Conference on “Border tensions: Troubling Psychoanalysis,” Rutgers, New Jersey, Oct. 24, 2015.

Section II: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Practice

Introduction

1. “Hope as inspiration in psychoanalysis” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1995, 5:1, 63-74.

2. “The right stuff: The analyst’s sensitivity to emotional nuance” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1997. 33:2, 295-306.

3. “The analyst’s experience of loneliness” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1998, 34:1, 91-115.

4. “Searching for a passionate neutrality” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1999, 35:2, 213-227.

5. “Necessary and unnecessary losses: The analyst’s mourning. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2000, 36:1, 77-90.

6. “Joy in the analytic encounter: A response to Biancoli” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2002, 38:4, 613-622).

7. “More simply human than otherwise” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2002, 38:3, 485-497.

8. “The analyst’s search for atonement” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2009, 29:5, 426-437.

9. “No pain no gain? Suffering and the analysis of defense” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2010, 46, 334-355.

10. “My personal Interpersonalism: An essay on Sullivan’s one-genus postulate” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2014, 50:4, 531-548).

11. “Henry James’ middle years and my own” Paper presented at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association meeting, April, 2015.

Epilogue

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