Shrinking the Tsunami – Philip M. Bromberg, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 44(3): 329-350

From the Abstract: “Developmental trauma is a core relational phenomenon in shaping human personality. It contributes to every human being’s potential for affect dysregulation, which is always a matter of degree even in those for whom secure attachment has led to relative stability and resilience. We are all vulnerable to the experience of having to face something that is more than our minds can deal with, and the differences between people in how much is unbearable is part of what we always work with.”