I believe that Philip Bromberg writes in part because he loves to craft the language and nuances that finally reach the reader. But from the feeling of Dreamer I've become convinced that he writes because he must. You will become engaged with his view of psychoanalysis as you read. He is paradoxically both passionate and studiously thoughtful in his explorations that somehow go to bedrock, and then beyond. Awakening the Dreamer is an invaluable contribution to psychoanalysis.

From Bromberg's perspective, the antidote for dissociative process gone awry is relatedness with another. Dissociation is not only something that happens in a mind, but something that is of all minds, a basic operating principle of mindedness. A mind is a “cast of self-states” who