{"product_id":"the-shadow-of-the-tsunami-and-the-growth-of-the-relational-mind-paperback","title":"The Shadow of the Tsunami: And the Growth of the Relational Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip M. Bromberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpanding the self-state perspective of \u003cem\u003eStanding in the Spaces \u003c\/em\u003e(1998) and \u003cem\u003eAwakening the Dreamer \u003c\/em\u003e(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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA preeminent writer on the understanding of trauma and dissociative phenomena, Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., is author of \u003ci\u003eStanding in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation\u003c\/i\u003e (Analytic Press, 1998), \u003ci\u003eAwakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e (Analytic Press, 2006), and \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2011). He is Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Emeritus Co-Editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Bromberg serves on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Dialogues \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Inquiry.\u003c\/i\u003e He lectures widely, and is actively involved in the training of mental health professionals nationally and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665541619814,"sku":"9780367606220","price":89.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Nyt3cGpUazZZSWFyWGtJVFhSd2hUUT09.webp?v=1779943830","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-shadow-of-the-tsunami-and-the-growth-of-the-relational-mind-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}