Relational Interpretation of Dreams

<p>This book explains the use of dreams as a tool in psychotherapy to provide meaning establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship and thus enhance and progress treatment. Maintaining a focus on the synergy between dreams and relationship it includes interviews with four eminent dream researchers and scholars: John S. Antrobus G. William Domhoff Mark J. Blechner and J. Allan Hobson.</p><p>This book explores the synergistic qualities between dreams and relationships and how that synergy generates biographically professionally and psychotherapeutically formative experiences. The book delineates the ways in which dreams provide a foundation for relating provides a container (Bion 1967/1993) for the unthought known (Bollas 1987) creates meaning through relationships and ultimately fosters dispersion of relational dynamics originating from the culture of the times and more. From a relational psychoanalytic perspective this book describes the role of dreams in shaping our relational living. </p><p>This book provides a unique perspective that illustrates using yourself as a tool in relational establishment preservation and knowing. It is ideal for students working toward an understanding of the influence of intersubjective space in clinical interactions and clinicians looking for additional and alternate ways to connect with patients.</p>