Fromm’s Challenge: A Response to Philipson’s “The Last Public Psychoanalyst?: Why Fromm Matters in the 21st Century”

Sandra Buechler, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst and graduate, William Alanson White Institute. Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004) examines hope, courage, and other values. Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Routledge, 2008) discusses therapeutic process. Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career (Routledge, 2012) examines clinicians’ shame, sorrow, and resilience. Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (Routledge, 2015) uses short stories to illuminate coping styles.
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