{"title":"Language, Bromberg, Selfhood","authors":"S. Little","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2139960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2139960","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Philip I know lives at the intersection of language and selfhood. His analytic writing—part soliloquy, part dialogue—is a multivocal conversation with his reader, an immersion in the relational and linguistic interplay of self-states and dissociative spaces. His great gift is to seed therapeutic interconnectedness in the grounds of felt and negotiated meaning. To read Philip is to be more humanly related.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"335 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46723249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychotherapy as the Art of Uncertainty","authors":"P. Bromberg","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2145975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2145975","url":null,"abstract":"This article, by Philip M. Bromberg, is a gem published posthumously as part of this special edition. The origins are worth noting. A student from the Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions Service (EDCAS) program at the William Alanson White Institute asked me to invite Philip to consider giving a keynote address at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. His first response was—as now you may understand—a typical Bromberg response: It went (something like... . rather... . exactly like this,) “No, No, No!...what could I possibly say to students, nonetheless art therapists?” I encouraged him to speak with the EDCAS student, Valerie Sereno, LCAT, and faculty member in the graduate art therapy department at the School of Visual Arts, who was able to deftly convince him. Valerie also provided us the photo with Philip in front of SVA, to which he said—with a big grin—he never thought he’d see his name on a theater marquee. He was truly delighted. What you see below, was originally presented on September 12, 2014, as the keynote address for SVA’s annual conference of the MPS (Master of Professional Studies) Art Therapy Department. Philip gave a copy to Velleda Ceccoli (this issue), as they shared interest in the crossover of psychoanalysis and art. It feels right to publish it now. The paper is deliberately left in its spoken form (with the addition of footnotes and references), to ensure a felt experience of Philip as you read it. This includes his use of CAPS and italicized words, etc. Many of you would agree, I’m sure, that Philip simply would have had it no other way. Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"176 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45250682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philip Bromberg and the Revolution about Dissociated Self-States","authors":"E. Howell","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2141074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2141074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, I outline three primary ways in which Philip Bromberg’s work has reshaped the terrain of much of current psychoanalysis: (1) movement of the emphasis in psychoanalytic thinking from repression to dissociation; (2) premising personality disorders on dissociation; and (3) a redefinition of the unconscious. I also describe some of my work that expands on or is related to these. The latter involves a significant extrapolation of Bromberg’s understanding of personality disorders as dissociation-based, highlighting the differing dissociative structures of borderline personality disorder, “masochism,” and malignant narcissism, or psychopathy. In addition to describing how the intrapersonal dynamics involving a dissociated, punishing self-state (similar to an abusive alter) resemble the psychodynamics of archaic, or harsh superego, I enter a plea for the recognition, following some of Bromberg’s concepts, of the importance of the dissociative unconscious.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"299 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46635887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking It Personally","authors":"J. Benjamin","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2150496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2150496","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author reviews some of her personal and intellectual connections and experience in dialogue with Philip Bromberg, touching on a few ideas that have central importance for her as well as how he conveyed his own experience and feeling of what was important. She highlights how Bromberg influenced her and summarizes the way she understands her differences with him.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"461 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58742160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I’m not Myself Today: Dialogues with Philip Bromberg","authors":"Susan Kolod","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2137770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2137770","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author illustrates how 35+ years of interaction with Philip Bromberg affected her clinical and theorical work. Some of the phenomena described include a woman’s experience of herself across the menstrual cycle, the vicissitudes of how sexual encounters are experienced and remembered, and “spectatoring”, i.e., watching oneself have sex as if it’s happening to another person. These phenomena are observed through the lens of dissociated self-states. This exploration ends with a verbatim account of an informal supervision with Bromberg and its impact on patient and analyst.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"321 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42531002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harry and Philip","authors":"Emily A. Kuriloff","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2140579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2140579","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article begins with a review of Philip Bromberg’s penultimate psychoanalytic essay, “Sullivan as Pragmatic Visionary, Operationist and OperRelationalist” (2014), in which he honors the founder of the interpersonal psychoanalytic tradition. His focus on Sullivan’s emotional experience—specifically his struggle to be fully himself—reveals both motives and impediments to his interpersonal theory and praxis. The discussion then turns to Philip himself, who—inspired by Sullivan—also privileges the quality of relatedness in the moment, but with a significant difference. Rather than distortions or gaps in reality that impede insight, Philip favors affect, honoring Sullivan’s core notion that the quality of relatedness is central to personal change. Philip’s life both in and out of the consulting room is a testament to this sensibility and is ultimately illustrated in the author’s own experiences with Bromberg as Supervisor, Mentor, and, finally, as Dear Friend.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"391 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46621588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Remembrance of Philip M. Bromberg","authors":"Helen Quinones","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2150929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2150929","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay is dedicated to Philip M. Bromberg whose influence the author found to be transformative, both professionally and personally. The memories capture the relational intimacy experienced with Philip Bromberg during particularly vulnerable moments. Each memory is also used to illustrate the clinical presence needed to hold the disparate self-states inherent to dissociation. A brief case discussion applies the me/not me paradigm to the dynamics of “othering the analyst,” based on socioeconomic differences. The essay concludes with the recognition that undoing elements of dissociation expand our subjectivity in ways that stimulate our creativity.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"368 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49156331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C<scp>osmos</scp>, C<scp>osmetics</scp>, <scp>and</scp> T<scp>rauma</scp>","authors":"Gianni Nebbiosi","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2133984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2133984","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The clinical case I will present is intentionally without substantial theoretical references as it is meant to be a tribute entirely focused not only on Philip Bromberg’s thought, but also on his writing style and on the many emotions and much wisdom that are expressed in his texts, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly. Briefly, I would like to pay an entirely personal tribute to Bromberg the analyst/poet whom I have known—not for long, but very intensely—whom I have loved very much, whom I miss, and who continues to inspire me every day in my analytic work. In this article, I also refer to an active mode of “knowing” patients that I have developed over the past twenty years, which consists of miming them—not in their presence—in the attempt to get in touch with what their bodies and expressive movements leave on my body. I have learned a great deal from this form of implicit relational knowing (as Daniel Stern would have called it) and I am glad to share it with the readers of this article. Finally, I would like to sincerely thank Velleda Ceccoli and Jean Petrucelli for giving me such a valuable opportunity to remember Philip Bromberg.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58742546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mutual Appreciation of Differences: My Conversation with Philip M. Bromberg","authors":"R. Kluft","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2138737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2138737","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Concepts from emerging relational/intersubjective perspectives elaborate a definition, understanding, and clinical approach to dissociation consistent with their paradigms. They cast new light upon dissociation as a long underappreciated and often overlooked (primarily characterological) defense. While some embrace the extension of these ideas into work with the formal dissociative disorders, others think that that this development risked conveying both an incomplete picture of dissociation as a defense and contributing to a potential misunderstanding of these conditions and their treatment. This report summarizes conversation between the late Philip M. Bromberg and the author of this paper as they worked to clarify and reconcile their divergent perspectives on several relevant issues.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"438 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44048736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before There Was Philip, There Was Phil","authors":"R. Imber","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2133560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2133560","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author offers some reminiscences about the history of her relationship, both personal and professional, with Philip Bromberg. His early role in her training at the William Alanson White Institute is described with appreciation.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":"58 1","pages":"385 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45384657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}