The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams: Family and Other Relationship Systems Perspectives

This book will serve as a guide for practicing counselors and therapists to facilitate work with their clients interpreting their dreams in order to reduce and alleviate stress, with a focus on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts. Providing a framework for what follows, a brief historical and cultural background on the uses of dreams is presented, along with an overview of the major dream theories and therapies and the clinicians who developed them. The majority of the book then explores in-depth a researched dream interpretation model developed by the author, the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID). Through the use of a detailed case example of a client and her dreams, the author shows the clinician how each step of the PMID can be applied and carried out in their sessions with clients. Chapters conclude with self-study questions, and one is organized such that it can be used as the basis for a three-hour class on dream interpretation.