"It is impossible to permanently avoid an internal war between adversarial parts of the self simply by trying to increase the degree of power held by only one part."
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The Shadow of the Tsunami and the Growth of the Relational Mind (Routledge: 2011), p. 31 (italics in original).
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Philip Bromberg
Philip M. Bromberg (1931 – 18 May 2020) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst who was actively involved in the training of mental health professionals throughout the United States.
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