Understanding dreams in clinical practice

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Marcus (-)
Corporate Author: Society of Analytical Psychology (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Karnac Books 2011.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Society of Analytical Psychology monograph series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798126506719
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE An overview of dreaming; CHAPTER TWO A brief outline of Freud's views on dreams; CHAPTER THREE A brief outline of Jung's views on dreams; CHAPTER FOUR The language of dreams: the symbolic and the unconscious; CHAPTER FIVE Unlocking the network of associations: the objective, subjective, transference, and archetypal levels of dreams; CHAPTER SIX Beginning work with a dream; CHAPTER SEVEN Exploring some of the basics . . . and not so basics
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Dream architecture: signs and symbols - Sometimes a cigar is just a cigarCHAPTER NINE The position of the "I": death, violence, marriage, sex, gender, toilets, time, and location; CHAPTER TEN The initial dream; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Wolf-Man's dream: contrasting Freudian and Jungian approaches; CHAPTER TWELVE Recent developments in understanding dreams and dreaming: dream laboratories and the neuroscience of dreams; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Other dreams; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Final thoughts: twenty-first-century dreaming; REFERENCES; INDEX