MPS Art Therapy presents a talk by Sandra Buechler, PhD, as part of its Community Lecture Series.

People often seek help when they are facing one or more of life's essential challenges, such as aging, mourning, wanting more out of life, dealing with injustices, deciding when to fight, and other quandaries. How can we help them at these times? RSVP here. CEC’s available for ATR-BC’s; CE hours available for LCAT’s.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to name some sources of suffering they encounter in people seeking treatment.
Participants will be able to apply insights from poetry and other forms of literature to the work they do.
Participants will learn some ways of helpfully witnessing and accompanying people who are suffering.

Sandra Buechler, PhD is a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. In addition to many papers on emotions and psychoanalysis, she has written Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, (Analytic Press, 2004), Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives, (Routledge, 2008), which won the Gradiva award, Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012) and Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge, 2015), which looks at problematic patterns of behavior as portrayed in short fiction. Her most recent book is Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (IPBooks, 2017) in which she reflects on what can sustain analytic education and treatment.

Talk

Helping People Who Are Suffering

Room 101C