by EvelynM.Duesbury (Author)
For both students and practicing counselors, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner's needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations. Its main focus is on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts. Readers will first learn how to understand and use their own dreams, and then how to apply this in order to facilitate their clients' interpretations of dreams. They will be amazed and fascinated by the issues, emotions, and problem-solving suggestions that are often revealed as they guide their clients' use of a personalized dream interpretation method developed by the author. Through the use of a detailed case example of a client and her dreams, the author shows how each step of this method can be applied and carried out in practice and is easily integrated with contemporary psychotherapies, especially cognitive behavior therapies.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 29 Dec 2010
ISBN 10: 0415883423
ISBN 13: 9780415883429
Finally, we have an authoritative guide, a workable and accessible method that shows, step by step, how we actually are the final authority on the meaning of our own dreams. In a well researched and practical way, how to unfold the interior meaning of our dreams with all their complexity and allure. It is a masterful and original contribution. - Edward Bruce Bynum, PhD, ABPP, University of Massachusetts Health Services. Author of Families and the Interpretation of Dreams
Evelyn Duesbury has written an exceptional work. Her detailed description of her approach, personalized method for integrating dreams, PMID, is clearly and effectively done. This is a book that can be recommended to therapists at all levels of experience. - Milton Kramer, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, University of Cincinnati; author of The Dream Experience