An Integration of Contemporary Relational Psychoanalytic and Daseinsanalytic Approaches to the Use of Dream Interpretation in Psychotherapy
An Integration of Contemporary Relational Psychoanalytic and Daseinsanalytic Approaches to the Use of Dream Interpretation in Psychotherapy

Author: Dana W. Prechter

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Dream interpretation and its purpose in therapy from both the contemporary relational theory and Daseinsanalytic theory are explored. This study begins with the author's personal interest in the subject and a description of the purpose of dream interpretation, which may be described essentially as helping the dreamer to gain personal insight. Both the theories themselves and dream interpretation within these theories are illustrated with several examples. Differences as well as similarities of contemporary relational and Daseinsanalytic dream interpretation are noted. Another focus of this study is integrating aspects of the dream theories. The study proposes that if both ways of looking at dreams are taken into account, we may gain a greater understanding of dreams. Both potential gains as well as limitations of this integration are discussed.

The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams
The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Evelyn M. Duesbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-07

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1136920439

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For both students and practicing counselors, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner’s needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations. Its main focus is on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts. Readers will first learn how to understand and use their own dreams, and then how to apply this in order to facilitate their clients’ interpretations of dreams. They will be amazed and fascinated by the issues, emotions, and problem-solving suggestions that are often revealed as they guide their clients' use of a personalized dream interpretation method developed by the author. Through the use of a detailed case example of a client and her dreams, the author shows how each step of this method can be applied and carried out in practice and is easily integrated with contemporary psychotherapies, especially cognitive behavior therapies.

The Significance of Dreams
The Significance of Dreams

Author: Peter Fonagy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0429922175

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This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers. Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis. The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions.

The Relational Interpretation of Dreams
The Relational Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Alicia Ann MacDougall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1000380513

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This book explains the use of dreams as a tool in psychotherapy to provide meaning, establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship, and thus enhance and progress treatment. Maintaining a focus on the synergy between dreams and relationship, it includes interviews with four eminent dream researchers and scholars: John S. Antrobus, G. William Domhoff, Mark J. Blechner, and J. Allan Hobson. This book explores the synergistic qualities between dreams and relationships, and how that synergy generates biographically, professionally, and psychotherapeutically formative experiences. The book delineates the ways in which dreams provide a foundation for relating, provides a container (Bion, 1967/1993) for the unthought known (Bollas, 1987), creates meaning through relationships, and ultimately fosters dispersion of relational dynamics originating from the culture of the times and more. From a relational psychoanalytic perspective, this book describes the role of dreams in shaping our relational living. This book provides a unique perspective that illustrates using yourself as a tool in relational establishment, preservation, and knowing. It is ideal for students working toward an understanding of the influence of intersubjective space in clinical interactions and clinicians looking for additional and alternate ways to connect with patients.

Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis

Author: Stephen A. Mitchell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988-11-15

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780674754119

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There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell weaves strands from the principal relational-model traditions (interpersonal psychoanalysis, British school object-relations theories, self psychology, and existential psychoanalysis) into a comprehensive approach to many of the knottiest problems and controversies in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. Mitchell’s earlier book, Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory, co-authored with Jay Greenberg, set the stage for this current integration by providing a broad comparative analysis of important thinking on the nature of human relationships. In that classic study Greenberg and Mitchell distinguished between two basic paradigms: the drive model, in which relations with others are generated and shaped by the need for drive gratifications, and various relational models, in which relations themselves are taken as primary and irreducible. In Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Mitchell argues that the drive model has since outlived its usefulness. The relational model, on the other hand, has been developed piecemeal by different authors who rarely acknowledge and explore the commonality of their assumptions or the rich complementarity of their perspectives. In this bold effort at integrative theorizing, Mitchell draws together major lines of relational-model traditions into a unified framework for psychoanalytic thought, more economical than the anachronistic drive model and more inclusive than any of the singular relational approaches to the core significance of sexuality, the impact of early experience, the relation of the past to the present, the interpenetration of illusion and actuality, the centrality of the will, the repetition of painful experience, the nature of analytic situation, and the process of analytic change. As such, his book will be required reading for psychoanalytic scholars, practitioners, candidates in psychoanalysis, and students in the field.

The Purposive Self and the Dreaming Mind
The Purposive Self and the Dreaming Mind

Author: Frank Faranda

Publisher: Frank Faranda

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781439249840

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The Self and the Dream will be explored as they intersect along the axis of an inherent developmental purpose within the psyche. This function of purpose manifests as a series of processes that move the personality toward integration, psychological healing, and ongoing development. Psychoanalytic theory of the self will be reviewed to bring into relief these purposive processes in relation to other aspects of self. Psychoanalytic dream theory will be studied, beginning with Freud's model, and continuing to the present in order to uncover the ways in which the dream manifests as a function of these purposive processes. Through these explorations, Jungian ideas on the self and the dream will be interwoven to illuminate further the theoretical and experiential foundations for building a model of a purposive self.

The Herald Dream
The Herald Dream

Author: Richard Kradin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0429906757

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This monograph focuses on a systemic approach to dream interpretation and the unique importance of the initial dream. The first dream reported in a psychoanalytic therapy session poignantly encapsulates the major issues that the patient brings to the treatment. These dreams 'herald' the trajectory of the treatment and can be interpreted in the service of psychodynamic diagnosis and prognosis.The book melds aspects of Jungian dream analysis, with neo-Freudian analytic thought, current neurobiological concepts, and Buddhist psychology, to yield a rich and powerful understanding of how dreams symbolize the multifaceted aspects of the psyche. Multiple examples of initial dreams are discussed in detail, with suggestions for how they can inform the analytic stance and serve as objects for analysis over the course of a treatment.

The Significance of Dreams
The Significance of Dreams

Author: Peter Fonagy

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780429483172

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"This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers.Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis.The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions. These cover dreaming as it sheds light on clinical conditions such as depression and trauma, or dreams as they form a core aspect of clinical work; be that as a co-construction, or as shared play between therapist and patients. The book provides insight through dreams to understanding mental functions in all clinical situations and across all conditions."--Provided by publisher.

Nocturnes
Nocturnes

Author: Paul Lippmann

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780881633863

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Nocturnes, literally music for the night, is a delightfully impressionistic investigation into everything that is not known, and perhaps can never be known, about dreams. Rather than espousing yet another strategy of dream interpretation, Lippmann proffers a naturalistic approach appreciative of the playful, complex, even zany creativity embodied in dreams. He urges us, that is, to apprehend dreams on their own terms, in a manner that enables patients actually to experience the unconscious in its radical difference from waking thought. Lippmann delivers on his agenda lightly, with a sense of humor and practicality that will engage lay readers as well as analysts and therapists. He takes up questions of general interest that challenge us to reorient our thinking about dreams: How do children learn about dreams and their telling? Why are most dreams forgotten? How may we understand dreams about sleeping and waking, even dreams about dreaming? And he reengages issues of perennial interest to analytic therapists: dream disguise, dream forgetting, the "companionship" of dreams, the neurotic dream expert, and the therapist's management of his or her own anxiety when patients report their dreams. "Oh, I had a dream last night," the patient remembers. Too often, observes Lippmann, this remark signals the beginning of an unfortunate struggle, as the patient is called on to relate something that changes when it is put into words, the analyst is put on the spot to come up with an interpretation, and both are asked to extract something immediately useful - and lately, cost effective - from something that partakes of magic and mystery. How silly this ritual is, Lippmann argues, and how alien to the nature of the dream itself. After reading Nocturnes, no clinician, from the novice to the most senior, will hear the words "Oh, I had a dream last night" in quite the same way.