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

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" 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 leads to other discoveries. Beneath the dissociative structures seen in schizoid patients, and also in other personality disorders, Bromberg regularly finds traumatic experience -- even in patients not otherwise viewed as traumatized. This discovery allows interpersonal notions of psychic structure to emerge in a new light, as Bromberg arrives