The Relational Interpretation of Dreams
The Relational Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Alicia Ann MacDougall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-24

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1000380548

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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.

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.

Working with Dreams
Working with Dreams

Author: Montague Ullman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1351601644

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Originally published in 1979, this is a dream book with an outstanding difference: it takes the interpretation of dreams out of the realm of the professionals and gives it to the ultimate expert – the dreamer. Working with Dreams stresses the uniqueness of every dream and dreamer. With anecdotes and examples from their own dream groups, the authors show how to deal with the intimacy and honesty of a dream; how to explore its meanings without distorting them; how to let a dream tell us about ourselves and add to our understanding. Dr Ullman and Mrs Zimmerman start with the question of what is in a dream – what is real and what is symbolic? – and then go on to explain what happens during sleep and the way a dream develops. They cover remembering and recording dreams and dealing with the imagery of dreams. They illustrate the many predicaments that dreams depict, the self-deceptions we practice in relation to our dreams, and then show how dream groups – whether a family or a group of strangers – can work together to uncover the meaning of dreams. And they enrich their book by discussing everything from the history of dreams to the possibilities of dreams across space and time. The result is a storehouse of information about the world of dreams.

Dreaming
Dreaming

Author: Barbara Tedlock

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1987-11-12

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780521340045

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The authors, Jungian analysts, write for psychoanalysts and therapists who wish to integrate dream interpretation into their clinical practice. In this book, first published (hardcover) in 1987, ten contributing anthropologists and psychologists explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by peoples around the world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice
Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice

Author: Marcus West

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0429923511

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This book presents a simple, effective and illuminating way of understanding and working with dreams in clinical practice. It describes the mechanisms through which the mind/brain processes our experience and forms symbols, which embody a rich network of associations. It demonstrates how the dream and this network of associations can apply on a number of levels and thus shows how the full richness and vital importance of dreams, their meanings and purposes, can be explored. The book also explores the history, theory and science of dreams and dreaming. It reviews the debates between, and contributions from, Freud, Jung and other psychoanalysts, as well as the developments and discoveries from neuroscientists and dream laboratories, bringing the subject right up to date. Whilst the book primarily uses Jungian terminology, and highly values Jung's insights and approach to dreams, it gives a critical, contemporary account of the whole field of dream work and will be useful to practitioners of all theoretical persuasions.

Decoding Your Dreams
Decoding Your Dreams

Author: Robert Langs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1351664557

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Do your dreams seem to have as much in common with real life as a funhouse mirror? Don’t be misled. Dreams contain extraordinarily reliable commentaries on the conflicts and events of everyday life. Properly interpreted, they not only illuminate your anxieties but actually show you how to alter the course of your life – and very much for the better. Dreams are so essential to our health and well-being that almost all of us create them in clusters four or five times every night. In this title, originally published in 1989, Dr Robert Langs, a psychoanalyst and dream researcher, goes far beyond standard interpretation in showing how your dreams tap the wisdom of the deep unconscious part of your mind. Through his unique and groundbreaking technique of trigger decoding, you will learn what your dreams are saying about your life, about the events you must deal with, about the problems you are trying to resolve. Dreams can be a kind of emotional camouflage, difficult and often uncomfortable to interpret. Trigger decoding not only exposes our emotional wounds, it also provides the balm for healing those wounds. In the proper decoding of dreams, there is revealed an intelligence, power, and beauty of mind that is unheard of in direct and conscious experience. Decoding Your Dreams opens a revolutionary new door to self-understanding and self-improvement.

Dreams, A Portal to the Source
Dreams, A Portal to the Source

Author: Edward C. Whitmont

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 113585727X

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First published in 1991. An introductory guidebook to dream interpretation which will be of interest to analysts and therapists both in practice and training and to a wider readership interested in the origins and significance of dreams. This book should be of interest to dream psychology analysts, therapists, counsellors, and the general reader.