The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams

For both students and practicing therapists, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner's needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations.

Evelyn M. Duesbury

Part I: Preliminaries of Dream Interpretation 1. Historical and Cultural Uses of Dreams. 2. Preliminaries to Working with Dreams. Part II: Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams 3. Overview of the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID), Kimberly Tuescher, Brenda O'Beirne, and Evelyn Duesbury. 4. Daytime Events Reproduced in the Nighttime Theater of Dreams (PMID Step 1). 5. Daytime Thoughts: Questions That Nighttime Dreams Answer (PMID Step 2). 6. Dream Phrases: Products of the Dreaming Mind's Amazing Creativity (PMID Step 3). 7. Emotions in Dreams: Intrinsically Honest (PMID Step 4). 8. Solutions and Suggestions in Dreams: Answers to the Dreamer's Waking Life Issues (PMID Step 5). 9. Interpretation of Dreams from Family and Other Relationship Systems Perspectives: Further Clues to Relieving Stress (PMID Step 6). 10. Dreams Build on Each Other: The Individual's Series Approach to Interpreting Dreams. 11. Review Dreams for New Insights: It May be Time to Move Onward. 12. Delivery Modes for Facilitating Dream Interpretation: How They Accommodate Short Term Counseling. Part III: Two Breakthrough Dream Interpretation Models of the Later Twentieth Century 13. Group Approach, Montague Ullman. Chapter 14. Cartwright's RISC Model, Rosalind Cartwright and Lynne Lamberg.