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disaster and trauma and has authored publications in areas related to
trauma, disaster, and torture/human rights. He has volunteered in dif-
ferent capacities in several disasters including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina,
the 2004 South Asian tsunami, and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and has
furthered the cause of interdisciplinary collaboration by co-organizing
several conferences.

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is a training analyst at the William Alanson
White Institute, supervisor of Psychiatric Institute internship and post-
doctoral programs, and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary
Psychotherapy. A graduate of the William Alanson White Institute, Dr.
Buechler has written extensively on emotions in psychoanalysis, includ-
ing papers on hope, joy, loneliness, and mourning in the analyst and
patient. In her book, Clinical Values: Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic
Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004), Dr. Buechler examines the role of hope,
courage, the capacity to bear loss, the ability to achieve emotional bal-
ance, and other factors in treatment. Her most recent book, Making a
Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic
Setting (Analytic Press, 2008), is a personal description of the process of
therapeutic change.

Daniel H. Bush, M.Div., lives in Jerusalem and serves as an educator at
several programs: Yakar, Kivunim, the Conservative Yeshiva, Nesiya, and
Pardes. He also works for Encounter, a Jewish organization that arranges
meetings between rabbis, Jewish teachers, and Palestinians in Bethlehem
and Hebron, and trains facilitators for these programs. Prior to coming
to Israel on a Dorot Fellowship in the autumn of 2005, he served for 2
years as director of 9/11 Long-Term Recovery and Victim Advocacy for
New York Disaster Interfaith Services. In 2003, he completed his chap-
laincy residency at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. On 9/11, he
was serving as a chaplain in the federal prison in Lower Manhattan while
completing his Master of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary.
His studies focused on psychology, pastoral care, biblical scholarship, the-
ology, and the interconnections between Judaism and Christianity. An
affiliated member of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, he is
also certified by New York State and St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Crime
Victims Treatment Center as a rape crisis advocate. He is presently work-
ing on a book of short stories about New York.