Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression

<p>This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy and in self-treatment. The author shows how dreams shed light on issues contributing to depression-including drug and alcohol abuse divorce death and bereavement conflicts about sex health and body image parenting workplace stress and burnout and ancestral intergenerational trauma. Greg Bogart presents a synthesis of Jungian and existential psychotherapy detailing how attention to archetypal symbolism brings into immediate focus new responses to pressing life challenges. He shows that allowing oneself to be affected by dream images and narratives promotes emotional relational and spiritual rejuvenation. </p>