Standing in the Spaces: Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation

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Summary: Luminous and richly rewarding.
Review: 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.

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Summary: A treasure of clinical insight
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Luminous and richly rewarding.
Review: 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.