Understanding dreams in clinical practice / Marcus West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Marcus.

Contributor:

Society of Analytical Psychology.

Series:

Society of Analytical Psychology monograph series.

Society of Analytical Psychology monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Jung, C. G.

Dreams.

Jungian psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 and this network of associations can apply on a number of levels and thus shows how the full richness and vital importance of dreams, their meanings and purposes, can be explored. The book also explores the history, theory and science of dreams and dreaming. It reviews the debates between, and contr

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78049-889-6

0-429-92351-1

0-429-90928-4

0-429-48451-8

1-283-28788-9

9786613287885

1-84940-933-1

9780429484513

OCLC:

755415615