Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys

ISBN-13: 9780881634419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str.

Philip M. Bromberg

Opis

< P> In < EM> Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys< /EM> , Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in < EM> Standing in the Spaces< /EM> (1998).& nbsp; Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral variations in relatedness - those subtle, split-second changes that capture the powerful workings of dissociation and chart the changing self-states that analyst and patient bring to the moment.< BR> & nbsp; < BR> For Bromberg, a model of mind premised on the centrality of self-states and dissociation not only offers the optimal lens for comprehending and interpreting clinical data; it also provides maximum leverage for achieving true intersubjective relatedness.& nbsp; And& nbsp; this manner of looking at clinical data offers the best vantage point for integrating psychoanalytic experience with the burgeoning findings of contemporary neuroscience, cognitive and developmental psychology, and attachment research.< BR> & nbsp; < BR> Dreams are approached not as texts in need of deciphering but as means of contacting genuine but not yet fully conscious self-states.& nbsp; From here, he explores how the patient's dreamer and the analyst's dreamer can come together to turn the real into the really real of mutative therapeutic dialogue. The difficult, frequently traumatized patient is newly appraised in terms of tensions within the therapeutic dyad.& nbsp; And then there is the haunted patient who carries a sense of preordained doom through years of otherwise productive work - until the analyst can finally feel thepatient's doom as his or her own.& nbsp; < BR> & nbsp; < BR> Laced with Bromberg's characteristic honesty, humor, and thoughtfulness, these essays elegantly attest to the mind's reliance on dissociation, in both normal and pathological variants, in the ongoing effort to maintain self-organization.& nbsp; < EM> Awakening the Dreamer< /EM> , no less than < EM> Standing in the Spa< /P>

Spis treści

Introduction: When Reality Blinks. Part I: On Self States. Bringing in the Dreamer. Playing with Boudaries. "The Gorilla Did It": Thoughts on the Real and the Really Real. Part II: Collisions and Negotiations. Potholes on the Royal Road: Or is it an Abyss? Treating Patients with Symptoms, and Symptoms with Patience. The Analyst's "Self-revelation": Not Just Permissable, but Necessary. Part III: Safe but Not Too Safe. One Need Not Be a House to Be Haunted: A Case Study. "Something Wicked This Way Comes": Where Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience Overlap.

O autorze

A preeminent author on the understanding of trauma and dissociative phenomena, Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., is the author of Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (Analytic Press, 1998).  He is Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  Co-Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Dr. Bromberg serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.  He lectures widely throughout the United States and is actively involved in the training of mental health professionals.