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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... that the analyst's presence adds to the patient's emotional experience. Empathy, in this view, is not understood as necessarily involving mirroring or delimiting emotion. Using my own reading and clinical experience as guides I would ...
... that the analyst, by remaining him or herself (with her characteristic ways of coping) may provide telling contrasts and sources of emotional modulation. For example, although Keara is not an analyst, her song, undiminished, contrasts ...
... that the goals in the first session have to remain frozen? Where is it written that symptoms are more important than how a life feels to the person living it? The patient had explained that, in the context of his evolving enjoyment of ...
... that the analyst's disclosure, or direct advice, or concrete help, or the gift of a soothing phrase, will evoke in the patient feelings strong enough to have the power to heal. I think many treatment stalemates result from the patients ...
... that the patient and the analyst benefit equally from it. In both, freely roving curiosity widens what can enter conscious awareness. A thought is like a toy that can be tossed around and looked at from various angles for the sheer joy ...
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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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