Dreams and Professional Personhood: The Contexts of Dream Telling and Dream Interpretation Among American Psychotherapists

Two community mental health centers in the Northeastern United States form the setting for this ethnographic study of dreams, dream telling, and dream interpretation. To gather information about American attitudes toward dreams and dream telling, the author observed and interviewed employees of these centers: social workers, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, secretaries, and medical technicians. The issues that emerge from the interviews are analyzed and clarified by exploring Western understandings of the concepts of person and self, and of professional personhood--the capacities and responsibilities ascribed to you by yourself and others in your milieu as professionals. The book also contains a comprehensive literature review of the research on dreams and an appendix of narrative statements made by informants on their dreams, their work, and their relationships.

About the author

Mary-T. B. Dombeck has been a psychotherapist for ten years and is on the faculty at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

Product details

• Authors: Mary-T B. Dombeck
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1991
• EAN: 9780791405888
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0588-8
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: Suny Series, Women Writers in; Suny Series, Women Writers in; Suny Dream Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, SELF-HELP / Dreams