PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST STUDY GROUP OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE FOR PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th from 1:30-3:00PM/Eastern

Humanism in Fromm and Shakespeare

with Sandra Buechler, PhD

Attend in person or online as follows:

In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues

Online via Zoom at:

https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09

Please be sure to RSVP to attend: fvdillon@gmail.com

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION

Dr. Buechler will consider some humanistic concepts in Erich Fromm’s work and in the plays of William Shakespeare. By juxtaposing their lines, she hopes to convey the timelessness of both, suggesting that Fromm’s insights gain vividness in Shakespeare’s neighborhood, and Shakespeare’s lines sharpen from being beside Fromm’s formulations. More specifically, in juxtaposing Fromm’s words about life with Shakespeare’s similar expressions, she suggests that some insights are for all time, spanning eras and geography: they are human.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Sandra Buechler, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.  Her many books include Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives (2008), which won the Gradiva award;  Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joy of a Clinical Career (2012); Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature (2015); and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living, (Routledge, 2019).  Her most recent bookis Erich Fromm:  A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2025).

Join us for this special guest and her presentation and discussion of universal and timeless themes.