Buechler S. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical Practice

Routledge, 2019. — 229 p. — (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series). — ISBN: 9781351204996.Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Livingexamines how psychoanalysts can draw on their training, reading, and clinical experience to help their patients address some of the recurrent challenges of everyday life. Sandra Buechler offers clinicians poetic, psychoanalytic, and experiential approaches to problems, drawing on her personal and clinical experience, as well as ideas from her reading, to confront challenges familiar to us all.
Buechler addresses issues including difficulties of mourning, aging, living with uncertainty, finding meaningful work, transcending pride, bearing helplessness, and forgiving life's hardships. For those contemplating a clinical career, and those in its beginning stages, she suggests ways to prepare to face these quandaries in treatment sessions. More experienced practitioners will find echoes of themes that have run through their own clinical and personal life experiences.Introduction: Problems in living
Capacity for aloneness and relationship: Love between two solitudes
Mourning
Healthy aging
Cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal sources of resilience
Bearing uncertainty, upholding conviction, and maintaining curiosity
Finding meaningful work and nourishing interests
Transcending pride, shame, and guilt: Some sources of feelings of insufficiency
Forgiving
Societal and personal attitudes about suffering: Conclusions and speculations
Training