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Presents a simple way of understanding and working with dreams in clinical practice. This book describes the mechanisms through which the mind/brain processes our experience and forms symbols, which embody a network of associations. It demonstrates how the dream and this network of associations can apply on a number of levels.
List of contents
Series Preface -- An overview of dreaming -- A brief outline of Freud's views on dreams -- A brief outline of Jung's views on dreams -- The language of dreams: the symbolic and the unconscious -- Unlocking the network of associations: the objective, subjective, transference, and archetypal levels of dreams -- Beginning work with a dream -- Exploring some of the basics . . . and not so basics -- Dream architecture: signs and symbols -- The position of the "I": death, violence, marriage, sex, gender, toilets, time, and location -- The initial dream -- The Wolf-Man's dream: contrasting Freudian and Jungian approaches -- Recent developments in understanding dreams and dreaming: dream laboratories and the neuroscience of dreams -- Other dreams -- Final thoughts: twenty-first-century dreaming
About the author
Marcus West is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology in private practice in Sussex, England. He is the author of a number of papers, one of which was joint winner of the Michael Fordham Prize 2004. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and is currently Chair of Psychotherapy Sussex. He is author of three books: 'Feeling, Being and the Sense of Self', 'Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice', and 'Into the Darkest Places'.
Summary
Presents a simple way of understanding and working with dreams in clinical practice. This book describes the mechanisms through which the mind/brain processes our experience and forms symbols, which embody a network of associations. It demonstrates how the dream and this network of associations can apply on a number of levels.
