Making a Difference in Patients' Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic SettingRoutledge, 24 апр. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 336 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. 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? 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 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 favor "solutions" that aim to mute emotionality, rather than relying on one emotion to modify another. We turn to pharmaceutical, cognitive, or behavioral 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 utilizes 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. |
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... meaning of the patient's behavior. Paranoid people think they can completely explain their experience with a predetermined overriding assumption, for example, “They are after me because I am Jesus.” All too similarly, analysts can use ...
... meaning of progress. This view of emotionality affects how we define normality and pathology, and affects our focus in sessions. What we see as important, worthy of therapeutic attention, memorable, and so on, depends on our basic ...
... possibly could. I suggest that at some later point, discussion of the interchange might be very useful, to underline and clarify the meaning of the contrast. Assumption 8 Emotion theory and interpersonal psychoanalysis have both posited.
... meanings of her verbal bombardments. We may then pursue understanding of their place in her current life. How her own objectives can be better served will usually occur to her at some point, without my having to say anything. Mattering.
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Empathic Responses to Shame | |
Facing Painful Regret | |
Joy as a Universal Antidote | |
Grief | |
Empowering and Disorienting Anger | |
Nurturing the Capacity to Make a Difference | |
Thinking Analytically | |
Emotional Preparation for Practicing Psychoanalysis | |
Developing the Personal Strengths of a Psychoanalyst | |
Making a Difference | |
References | |
Index | |
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