Saturday October 25, 2025
The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology
presents
Sandra Buechler, PhD
Addressing Life’s Challenges
in Clinical Practice
2 Continuing Education Credits
The Topic
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life’s Challenges in Clinical Practice (Routledge, 2019) asks how we can help people navigate some of life’s most difficult situations. Examples include bearing aloneness, problematic relationships, mourning, aging, and life’s inherent uncertainties. We are often called upon when people are suffering with painful feelings of insufficiency and dilemmas about what to forgive. The book focuses on the uses of the treatment relationship in addressing these situations.
In our conference I will use vignettes from my practice to explore dilemmas I encountered in treating people facing these “problems in living.”
The Speaker
Sandra Buechler, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. She is the author of 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), Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature,(Routledge, 2015) Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice, (IPBooks, 2017) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living,(Routledge, 2019), Poetic Dialogues(IPBooks, 2021) and Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2024).
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation,
participants will be able to:
1. Describe dilemmas clinicians face when treating people in mourning.
2. Contrast verbal formulation with other approaches when we treat people suffering from painful feelings of insufficiency.
3. Describe how they might use the treatment relationship itself to help people facing dilemmas about what to forgive.
Presentation 11-1 zoom
Zoom Sign-in begins 10:45am
2 CECs (Division 39)
2 CECs (NASW):
Planned for Social Work, LPCs & LMFTs
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.
References:
1. Buechler, S. (2010). No pain no gain? Suffering and the analysis of defense. Contemporary Psychoanalyis, 46, 334-354.
2. Buechler, S. (2015). Will I still be me? Paper presented at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.
3. Fromm-Reichmann, F. (1959). On loneliness. In: D. Bullard (Ed.) Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: Selected papers of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (pp.325-336). University of Chicago Press.
Participants:
The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is all levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
Continuing Education Credits:
This conference has been approved for for 2 continuing education credits by Div. 39, who maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Pending Approval - 2 CECs from NASW-CT.
If continuing education credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page, for our records. In addition,100% attendance and a completed evaluation form is required to receive CEC certificates. The evaluation form will be sent in the form of an online survey to all registrants within a few hours after the event, and if you attend the full conference and return that you will be sent a certificate of attendance.
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