ABSTRACT
Emily's work begins with a Gestalt treatment of dream material. Emily anticipates working with both Richard and Rebecca; the dream directly involves both of these individuals. Dream analysis takes many forms, from the traditional psychoanalytic approach to the more active approaches of Gestalt therapy. Emily's script has been built both out of introjections—pieces swallowed whole—from Mother and out of decisions that Emily herself made. In Emily's work, the therapists recognized that the elements were significant in the segment of script that determined Emily's compulsion to lock herself up. She has new cognitive as well as emotional information that she can integrate and use to understand and modify her own behavior. Emily did several more pieces of work during the workshop, including a focus on her suicidal decision, with immediate cessation of many of the phobic reactions. She continues in treatment with a therapist in her home community.
