During early development, every human being is exposed to the
relative impact of relational trauma disconfirmation of aspects of
oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of others in
shaping both the capacity for spontaneous human relatedness and the
relative vulnerability to "adult-onset trauma." To one degree or
another, a wave of dysregulated affect a dissociated "tsunami" hits
the immature mind, and if left relationally unprocessed leaves a
fearful shadow that weakens future ability to regulate affect in an
interpersonal context and reduces the capacity to trust, sometimes
even experience, authentic human discourse.
In his fascinating third book, Philip Bromberg deepens his
inquiry into the nature of what is therapeutic about the
therapeutic relationship: its capacity to move the psychoanalytic
process along a path that, bit by bit, shrinks a patient's
vulnerability to the pursuing shadow of affective destabilization
while simultaneously increasing intersubjectivity. What takes
places along this path does not happen because "this" led to
"that," but because the path is its own destination a joint
achievement that underlies what is termed in the subtitle "the
growth of the relational mind."
Expanding the self-state perspective of Standing in the Spaces
(1998) and Awakening the Dreamer (2006), Bromberg explores what he
holds to be the two nonlinear but interlocking rewards of
successful treatment healing and growth. The psychoanalytic
relationship is illuminated not as a medium for treating an illness
but as an opportunity for two human beings to live together in the
affectively enacted shadow of the past, allowing it to be
cognitively symbolized by new cocreated experience that is
processed by thought and language freeing the patient's natural
capacity to feel trust and joy as part of an enduring regulatory
stability that permits life to be lived with creativity, love,
interpersonal spontaneity, and a greater sense of meaning.
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