New Directions in Dream Interpretation

Edited by Gayle Delaney

Subjects: Anthropology
Series: SUNY series in Dream Studies
Paperback : 9780791416068, 308 pages, September 1993
Hardcover : 9780791416051, 308 pages, September 1993

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Table of contents

Introduction
Gayle Delaney

1. Dreams, the Dreamer, and Society
Montague Ullman

2. Dreams: The Gateway to Consciousness
Joseph M. Natterson

3. A Jungian Approach to Working with Dreams
John Beebe

4. Phenomenological Challenges for the Clinical Use of Dreams
P. Erik Craig and Stephen J. Walsh

5. Dream Translation: An Approach to Understanding Dreams
Milton Kramer

6. The Dream Interview
Gayle Delaney

7. The Dream Interview Method in a Private Outpatient Psychotherapy Practice
Loma Flowers

8. An Integrated Approach to Dream Theory and Clinical Practice
Ramon Greenberg and Chester Pearlman

List of Contributors

Description

This book presents in detail seven contemporary approaches to dream interpretation as they are actually practiced by highly skilled and experienced psychiatrists and psychologists who have worked with dreams for at least a decade. The reader can sample radically different approaches from various schools of interpetation and gain the tools for making meaningful comparisons. The contributors describe their theoretical roots and how they have departed from them when confronted with the real world of real dreamers. Each chapter teaches the reader in practical terms what to do when trying to understand a dream of one's own, or one's friend, colleague, or client. Readers are taken behind the curtain of theory into the consultation room where the work of interpretation takes place.

This book provides a variety of contemporary, non-dogmatic, practical ways to work with dreams. Each contributor emphasizes not theory, but interpretive method and practical application of dream interpretation. Contributors to this volume include John E. Beebe, Eric Craig, Gayle Delaney, Loma K. Flowers, Ramon Greenberg, Milton Kramer, Joe Natterson, Chester Arthur Pearlman, Montague Ullman, and Stephen J. Walsh.

Gayle Delaney is a Dream Psychologist and Co-Director of the Delaney and Flowers Center for the Study of Dreams. She is the Founding President of the Association for the Study of Dreams.