ABSTRACT

This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression, in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy, and in self-treatment. The author shows how dreams shed light on issues contributing to depression-including drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, death and bereavement, conflicts about sex, health and body image, parenting, workplace stress and burnout, and ancestral, intergenerational trauma. Greg Bogart presents a synthesis of Jungian and existential psychotherapy, detailing how attention to archetypal symbolism brings into immediate focus new responses to pressing life challenges. He shows that allowing oneself to be affected by dream images and narratives promotes emotional, relational, and spiritual rejuvenation.

chapter ONE|41 pages

Symbols of woundedness in dreams

chapter THREE|11 pages

A dreamer's quest for love and self-acceptance

chapter FOUR|14 pages

The weight of married life: six dreams

chapter FIVE|8 pages

Dreaming of conflicted family relationships

chapter SIX|38 pages

Dreamwork through an existential lens

chapter SEVEN|13 pages

A dreamer approaching retirement

chapter EIGHT|21 pages

Dreams of an elder

chapter NINE|18 pages

The healing symbol of wholeness