An Interview with Steven Kuchuck, Editor of Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional

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Sandra Buechler

Sandra Buechler, PhD, is a Training and Supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute (WAW) and supervisor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital’s internship and postdoctoral programs and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. A graduate of WAW, Dr. Buechler has written extensively on emotions in psychoanalysis, including papers on hope, joy, loneliness, and mourning in the analyst and patient. Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004) examines the role of hope, courage, the capacity to bear loss, the ability to achieve emotional balance, and other factors in treatment, while Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Routledge, 2008) describes her personal view of the process of therapeutic change. Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge, 2012) looks at some sources of shame, sorrow, and resilience at various stages of a clinical career.

Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, is the Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and Associate Editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series from Routledge. He is on the Board of Directors, supervisor, and faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where he is also Co-Director of Curriculum for the four-year training program in adult psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the Institute for Expressive Analysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City, and author of articles that focus primarily on the impact of the analyst’s subjectivity on the clinical process. Most recently, he is a contributor to and editor of Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional, published as part of the Relational Perspectives Book Series.