Standing In The Spaces: Essays On Clinical Process Trauma And Dissociation
by Philip M. Bromberg /
2001 / English / EPUB
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In this celebrated collection of his writings, Bromberg expounds the view that severe character pathology, by its very nature, masks dissociative defenses that ward off the internal experience of trauma and keep the external world at bay to avoid retraumatization. These insights open to a new understanding of dissociative processes as intrinsic to the therapeutic process per se. For Bromberg, it is the unanticipated eruption of the patient's relational world, with its push-pull impact on the analyst's effort to maintain a therapeutic stance, that makes possible the deepest and most therapeutically fruitful type of analytic experience. Subtle, sophisticated, and delightfully unpredictable, Bromberg's essays keep the reader continually abreast of how words can and cannot capture the subtle shifts in relatedness that characterize the clinical process at times, they seem vividly to recreate the alternating states of mind of the relational analyst at work.
