Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process Trauma and Dissociation

by Philip M. Bromberg

Book Overview

Early in these essays, Bromberg contemplates how one might engage schizoid detachment within an interpersonal perspective. To his surprise, he finds that the road to the patient's disavowed experiences most frequently passes through the analyst's internal conversation, as multiple configurations of self-other interaction, previously dissociated, are set loose first in the analyst and then played out in the interpersonal field.

This insight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881633569
• ISBN13: 9780881633566
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

From the brilliant mind of Philip Bromberg

This work is at the edge of whatever is culmination in psychoanalysis. Dense and sometime a mind twister it is a profound and human journey as the author's title says "Standing in the spaces" Bromberg his pushing and moving psychoanalysis straight forward.He is part of those guys that makes the world progress. A compelling must read "ouvrage" for all clinicians...A Brilliant moving book

Luminous and richly rewarding.

What a fascinating and remarkable book. Bromberg's subtlety, ingenuity and insight combine in -- how rare!--elegantly accessible prose to produce a book full of ideas. I found it luminous and richly rewarding.

A treasure of clinical insight

To read Bromberg is to be invited into the mind of one of the most sophisticated analytic clinicians writing today. His writings style wonderfully conveys the subtle, barely thinkable complexities of clinical process, those hardly noticeable contours of interpersonal meaning shaping the feel of a given moment in a session. Bromberg is able to put into words what all therapists have experienced but few have been able to describe. Although the more abstract theoretical components of his thinking are not quite as coherent as one might wish (a lot of model-mixing here) this flaw becomes almost insignificant in the face of the scintillating brilliance of Bromberg's clinical insight.