ABSTRACT

This unique book, incorporating both theory and practice, provides an invaluable guide to the assessment of dreams in transactional analysis (TA).

Grounded in the latest neuroscientific research, it offers both neophyte and experienced TA practitioners a pathway to incorporate a client’s dreams within individual and group therapy, exploring key issues including trauma, dissociation and nightmares, dreams of change and transformation, dreams of healing, and transference and countertransference in dreams.

It will support therapists through the very first steps toward the analysis of more complex interpersonal dynamics and dream analysis in a group setting. Also discussing the direction of future research in the area, as well as an overview of an experiment on dream analysis during the recent pandemic, this will be key reading for anyone working in the field.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|23 pages

Dreams in psychology and psychotherapy

chapter 2|20 pages

Neurosciences and dreams

chapter 3|15 pages

Transactional analysis of dreams

chapter |4 pages

Suggestion

The history and culture of dreams

chapter 5|19 pages

Dreams in individual psychotherapy

chapter 6|20 pages

Script dreams, recurring dreams

chapter |6 pages

Suggestion

Kafka, insomnia, and dreams

chapter 7|21 pages

Trauma, dissociation, nightmares

chapter 8|19 pages

Change and transformation dreams

chapter 9|15 pages

Dreams of healing

chapter 10|19 pages

Transference and dreams

chapter |5 pages

Suggestion

Cinema and Fellini

chapter 11|16 pages

Dreamwork in group therapy

chapter 12|20 pages

Countertransference dreams

chapter |6 pages

Suggestion

Cinema sci-fi, anime, and graphic novels