
Existential Psychotherapy and the Interpretations of Dreams
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Summary
An Existential Model is presented in detail as a guide to effective psychotherapy. With slight modification, the Model is also applicable to an understanding and interpretation of one's own dreams as well as the dreams of people who are in therapy. Through existential awareness and reflective thinking, the reader is encouraged to discover constructive challenges and paradoxes that connect dreams with waking life and lead to the discovery of creative possibilities for work and living.
The existential approach to psychotherapy and dream interpretation is explicated through examples of phenomenological interviewing, use of description in lifting out horizons and core meanings, and analysis of core themes that intimately embrace the self.
Existential philosophy recognizes mystery encompasses the unknown and unpredictable and asserts that regardless of past suffering and impoverishment, the potentials for health and well-being are within reach. The Existential Model offers a practical methodology and a set of guides for achieving these goals and finding a future that moves beyond the restraints and rejections that have resulted from choosing the wrong path for identity expression and selfhood. The person is the central catalyst for decision and action and retains control over her or his own destiny. The caring and competency of the therapist or the dream guide are projected into the person's world, where they evoke images and awarenesses that facilitate expressions of pain and loss, inspire a search for what is blocking growth, and eventually move the person in therapy or in dreamwork to express new feelings, new thoughts, and new ways of being, both internally and in relationships with others.
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
An Existential-Phenomenological Approach to Psychotherapy and Dreams | p. 1 |
Being, Existence, and Language | p. 9 |
Existence and Being | |
Phenomenal Meaning and Consciousness | |
Language and Meaning | |
Being and Caring | p. 19 |
Being and Dasein | |
Being-in-the-World | |
Time and Temporality | |
Moods or State-of-Mind | |
Care | |
Constituents of Care | |
Non-Being and Nothingness | |
Existential Psychotherapy | p. 43 |
Major Processes of Existential Therapy | |
Methods of Existential Psychotherapy | |
Recovering Personal Power | p. 69 |
An Extended Illustration: Mona Dawson | |
Review and Summary of Existential Psychotherapy | |
Dream Life: Pathways to Self-Transformation | p. 79 |
Dostoevsky's Dreamer | |
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams | |
Jung's Theory of Dreams | |
Gestalt Approach to Dreams | |
Ullman's Theory of Dreams | |
Understanding and Interpreting Dreams | p. 111 |
Dream Life and Waking Life | |
Contrasting Disturbed and Peaceful Dreams | |
An Extential-Phenomenological Model for Dream Analysis | |
Guidelines in Interpreting Dreams | |
Summary of Steps in Dream Analysis | |
Applications of the Existential Dream Model | p. 133 |
Illustrations from My Own Dreams | |
Illustrations: The Dreams of Others | |
Lawrence's Dream: "Roadblocks to Nurturing Myself" | |
John's Dream: "Tagore" | |
Roberta's Dream: "If I Relinquish My Power, I Lose" | |
Doug's Dream: "A Journey of the Spirit" | |
Rob's Dream: "Finding My Way Back Home" | |
Delores's Dream: "A Dream with a Surprising Outcome" | |
Norma's Dream: "Learning to Walk around the Pills" | |
Doris's Dream: "The Policeman" | |
Dream Work in Therapy Illustrated | |
Ron's Dream: "To Be Loved and Accepted by One's Father" | |
Kay's Dream: "On Being Misunderstood" | |
Mary's Dream: "Life's Hidden Riches" | |
Values of the Model | |
Closing Comments | |
Credits | p. 209 |
Index | p. 211 |
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