Dreams, A Portal to the Source

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Title
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Contents
Acknowledgements
1 INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL DREAM INTERPRETATION
2 WORKING WITH THE DREAM IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
3 THE SITUATION AS IT IS
	The dream-ego
	Developmental possibilities through dream work
4 THE LANGUAGE OF DREAMS
	Image
	Allegory
	Symbols
	Rebus
5 ASSOCIATION, EXPLANATION, AMPLIFICATION: THE DREAM FIELD
	Associations
	Explanation
	Emotions and bodily reactions
	'Trivial' dreams
	Fantasy, imagination, and enactment
	Affect and feeling quality
	Amplification
	The therapist's responses
6 COMPENSATION AND COMPLEMENTATION: OBJECT AND SUBJECT LEVELS
	Compensation and complementation
	Object and subject levels in dreams
	Dramatization
	Application of the compensation and complementation principle in dreamers with undeveloped or fragmented egos
7 THE DRAMATIC STRUCTURE OF THE DREAM
	General overview of the dream drama
	Dramatic structure
8 MYTHOLOGICAL MOTIFS
	Recognizing mythological motifs
	The interplay of archetypal and personal material
	Dealing with mythological motifs
	Some special motifs
	The life play
	Birth
	Children
	Animals
	Interpreting mythological material
9 TECHNICAL POINTS
	Time sequence
	The re-evaluating function of the dream
	The day residue
	Dream series
	Variations on a theme
	Nightmares
10 PROGNOSIS FROM DREAMS
	Dreams of death or illness
11 BODY IMAGERY
	Sexuality
	Imagery of body orifices
12 DREAMS OF THERAPY AND THE FIGURE OF THE THERAPIST
	The actual reality of the therapist
	Transference reactions
	The inner therapist
	Countertransference dynamics
	Induction by the therapist
	Dreams of the process of therapy
	Variations on the theme of the therapy process
	Images of alternative therapists
	The archetypal transference in dreams
	Dreams of therapy for the therapist only
	Therapist's dreams about the client
13 CONCLUSION
Notes
Bibliography
List of dreams
Index