Learning from Experience

14 Conclusion

WE COME TO THE END of this journey having encountered lots of terms, lots of different ways of conceptualizing these spaces we get into in our work and in our lives. Some of these conceptualizations may resonate for you; some may not. Some meanings may come upon you slowly and enlarge as your own arsenal of experience grows. Most important, I think, is to have a conceptualization that works for you and to be open to revisioning and revising it as new concepts and conceptions intrude.

At a recent conference, I had the opportunity to hear Philip Bromberg talk about his work with difficult patients, and I really had to laugh because he was talking about exactly the same things I was to talk about later that day but in a different language. ...