Philip Bromberg has been writing evocatively and incisively about psychoanalysis for some 20 years, yet only recently have his contributions begun to receive widespread recognition. At the 1999 meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association in New York, his ideas were suddenly everywhere. Speaker after speaker—at least on the panels I attended—employed Bromberg's phrase, “standing in the spaces,” as a metaphor for describing not only a state of psychological health involving an acceptance of dissociation but also the analyst's ideal listening stance. In actuality, however, Bromberg's ascendancy to the ranks of the frequently cited should come as little surprise. His