'Delia Cushway's wealth of experience makes this new edition an essential read for all aspiring counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists as well as for more experienced practitioners seeking to enhance their practice' - Prof Sue Wheeler, Director of Doctoral Programme, Institute of Lifelong Learning 'I found the book fascinating, illuminating not only my client's material but also my own night-life. The book's strength lies in integrating perspectives from many different psychotherapeutic disciplines, from psychoanalytic to cognitive' - Diana Sanders, Counselling Psychologist and Cognitive Psychotherapist This practical book shows how dreamwork can be a fruitful therapeutic tool for all therapists and practitioners in the helping professions. Emphasising that dreams are a powerful means of accessing an individual's emotions, creativity and wisdom, Delia Cushway has updated the first edition to include: - Skills for working with trauma and survivors of sexual abuse - Cross-cultural, spiritual and religious approaches to dreamwork - Up-to-date research and theory on using Cognitive, Objectivist and Constructivist models and methods - The importance of reflective practice - Scientific functions and meanings of dreams and their role in information processing and memory consolidation. Steeped in practical hints and tips, vivid case examples and methods of interpreting dream language, this highly accessible guide is an invaluable resource for therapists. Delia Cushway is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Coventry University and a practising Registered Clinical Psychologist. Robyn Sewell is a Chartered Psychologist and Group Psychotherapist, now fully retired.
Dreams frequently come up for discussion in the course of therapy, and the insights clients might gain from dreams can help the therapeutic process. This title teaches clients to use a technique called dream language, which emphasizes the client's own creation of the dream.
From the ominous practice of human sacrifice to reading clues on the Internet, this book presents a list of fortune-telling techniques. It also evaluates the accuracy of some of the most astonishing prophecies made throughout history. Also included is a range of practical experiments and recipes - from Stone Age to New Age.
Traces the history of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool.
Traces the history of psycho-analytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of dreams and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool- of the mind first, and finally as a tool to be integrated with other methods of investigation.
