L'ombra dello tsunami

by Philip M. Bromberg

Un trauma, uno “tsunami”, che colpisce una mente immatura lascia un’ombra di paura che indebolisce la futura capacità dell’adulto di costruire relazioni interpersonali, riducendo la possibilità di avere fiducia in un rapporto umano autentico. Philip Bromberg approfondisce la sua indagine sulla natura della relazione terapeutica: il processo psicoanalitico prosciuga la vulnerabilità del paziente e libera la sua capacità di avere fiducia negli altri, implicando una crescita della mente relazionale. - See more at: http://www.raffaellocortina.it/ombra-...

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, Counselling

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK - I wouldn't normally review this for Goodreads, but it is psychology month. I don't even think it would remotely count for weather. But for psychology geeks like me, who like dense theory, particularly in the area of contemporary relational psychodynamic psychotherapy - this is a hit. To tell the truth, Phillip Bromberg is my favorite of these guys and I love them all. Bromberg has a way of taking our dry theory and showing the magic and spirituality and connectivity of the work. Standing in the Spaces and Awakening the Dreamer remain two of my favorite books.

I am teaching in two weeks, and I always take an opportunity to read or re-read Bromberg. He awakens me, enlivens the work, and shows us a master at play.

So for the points - I offer you The Shadow of the Tsunami....

[Fede]

Paras syventävä terapeuttista kontekstia käsittelevä kirja, jonka olen lukenut. Erityisen antoisaksi koin dissosiaation ja sen merkityksen käsittelyn niin terveessä kuin patologisessakin psyyken toiminnassa. Ei kuitenkaan kaikkein helpoin kirja lukea. Edellyttää minusta etukäteisymmärrystä terapeuttisesta työstä ja käsitteistöstä, kuten minätilasta.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bromberg is a towering figure. This is his third book of papers converted into a book and it's wonderful. It's complicated at times, in part because of his grasp of Analytic theory but also because he's read so widely in literature and in Neurophysiology. He's confessional and his admission of smallness shows that he understands that we need a less shaming language for psychotherapists. I highly recommend this book, all three of his books, to psychotherapists.

[Renetta Neal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have learned much from this book about myself and my self-states. This I feel will help me to grow and develop both as a person and as a therapist. I struggled a bit at the start but as I worked my way through the book his ideas become clearer and easier to absorb and to apply to myself and my work. Highly recommended read.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I've read of Bromberg, although I am familiar with his theories. I appreciated his writing style, and certainly appreciate the way he invites clinicians to think about interaction and less about individualized pathology.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an enjoyable book by a well-regarded psychoanalyst. Speaking from a relational/interpersonal stance he weaves in some of the more recent brain science, literary observation in his illumination of the role of enactments, the creation of safe but to too safe spaces, being near, and reflection in helping people move from overly rigid dissociative structure to a more flexible organization wherein experience is more fully mentalized. In my own way of looking at this, it is through the creation of an emotional connection with another allowing both to to mutually tolerate a rupture in this connection (here due to dissociation fueled enactments), maintaining a sense of being together throughout, and thus of safety, and via this sense of safety, allowing the vagal structures to signal the brain to allow connection to social engagement systems and higher thought processes that are not as available when a person is in a fear state (wherein they are primarily accessing lower brain structures designed to keep us safe when physically threatened, reducing capacity for interpersonal engagement and thinking while increasing capacities for fight-flight-feignt. Appreciated Bromberg's foray into anomalous experiences near the end of the book.

[Jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful account of dissociation as it relates to the general discipline of psychoanalysis. The gems in this book are really top tier stuff but am dropping a star because it started to really drag in the latter half.

To Bromberg, dissociation is a response to otherness that becomes too overwhelming for the mind to bear, and the task of the analyst is to help verbalise the sublingual disjunctions dissociation seeks to “solve” rather than eliminate the dissociation itself. The fundamental argument is that “health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them” but theres a lot more depth here, particularly in relation to transference/countertransference and the role of the analyst.

[Dav Sánchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brillante despliegue de cómo se retuerce la intersubjetividad en las sesiones terapéuticas, y en la vida, ilustrando la relación entre trauma y disociación a través de viñetas clínicas y extractos de la literatura, con un lenguaje sugerente, bello y respetuoso.

[LRKK · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bromberg, who died in 2020, was one of the most creative, insightful, and useful psychoanalysts of the last half century. This, his last collection (of three), while not perhaps as transformative is more accessible and more personal, while still delivering intellectual and clinical gold.

[Robert K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good work, would recommend.

[Carl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a dense, challenging, and provocative book. It is one I will need to read over a few times and discuss with other therapists due to the difficulty of the concepts. I like how Bromberg , who seems to come from a classic psychoanalytic tradition, can use that sort of language to describe his ideas about trauma, dissociation and intersubjectivity. This was a tough read also due to its seeming ambiguity, but I think that is mostly because the concepts he describes are, by definition, often outside of the sphere of language.