Dreams in Psychotherapy

Catalog description

The Dreams in Psychotherapy course will familiarize students with the major theories that developed to understand and work with dreams in psychotherapy. These theories contribute to the clinical practice of clinicians from diverse theoretical perspectives. The course will discuss the early contributions to understanding hoe to work with dreams, including Sigmund Freud, Fritz Perls, and Aaron Beck. We will discuss specific types of dreams that clinicians encounter, including dreams about therapists, nightmares, and recurring dreams. Each class will intergrade clinical material that will be discussed in the context of the day's reading material. We will continuously try to understand how theory influences our clinical applications using clinical material from recent and ongoing cases.