Phantom Stress

About the Book

Phantom Stress : Brain Training to Master Relationship Stress introduces the reader to Logosoma Brain Training, a four-step practice that liberates one from the stresses that cause self-sabotaging patterns of thought, emotion and behavior and undo secure relationships. Phantom Stress is rooted in adverse childhood experiences or past stresses from adult life. These phantoms memoires eclipse appropriate responses to life in the present and derail healthy self awareness, disrupt secure boundaries, and destroy positive emotional connections. This book teaches readers how to track down and neutralize toxic memoires that produce phantom stress, and open new brain pathways to reconnecting with others for creative adaptive resilience to stress—lasting love and compassion.

About the Author

Phillip Romero, M.D. is a Child and Family Psychiatrist, artist and writer. He began writing The Art Imperative twenty-five years ago, inspired by the birth of his daughter and his insight into the “creative envy” that may motivate male artists. After traveling the world for forty years to study art and cultures, he arrived at a consilient approach to art, integrating cognitive evolution, developmental sociobiology and Buddhist theory and contemplative practices. In 1988, he created Logosoma Brain Training (LBT) by incorporating recent advances in brain science and Buddhist mindfulness techniques to help people master their relationship stress. His book Phantom Stress: Brain Training to Master Relationship Stress introduces these techniques to the public for the first time. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical School and trains Fellows in Child Psychiatry. He lives in New York City.