Event

A lecture by Sandra Buechler, PhD, exploring interpersonal aspects of hope, and the idea of hope as a gift from one person to another. Additionally, Buechler will discuss how hope can function as an obstacle to a richer life, what inspires participants in treatment to continue to have hope, despite the obstacles and limitations encountered, and the difference between productive hope and false hopes. Presented by MPS Art Therapy.

Buechler is a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She also supervises at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, she is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004), and has written papers on the analyst’s experiences of loneliness, loss, joy and other aspects of the clinician’s feelings. She also authored Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (Routledge, 2008) and Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge, April 2012).