If you are a therapist working with a patient and their dream, you must use their associations. But, as a result, you cannot distinguish how much of the interpretation is from the dream text itself, how much is from the dreamer\u2019s associations, and how much is from not only your prior knowledge of the dreamer but also the dreamer\u2019s self-knowledge.<\/p>\n
This presentation will include an experiment to test a hypothesis. The hypothesis is that the dream text alone is a coherent message about the dreamer\u2019s development, told in a symbolic language that we can decipher. First, in discussion, we will analyze a dream text, knowing nothing of the dreamer (beyond age and gender identity) or of the dreamer\u2019s associations. Then we will test our interpretation by hearing more about the dreamer. I hope to show that we must listen closely to\u00a0the dream\u2019s specific details and that internal repetition makes it possible to interpret the text alone. A dream is like a hologram in that the overall story is told in each part.<\/p>\n
We will not work with the dream of any attendee. I will email attendees when they register, asking them to email to me the text only of an interesting dream from a person they know well who has given them permission.\u00a0Because dreams are personal and can be unexpectedly revealing, this program\u00a0will not be recorded<\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are a therapist working with a patient and their dream, you must use their associations. But, as a result, you cannot distinguish how much of the interpretation is from the dream text itself, how much is from the dreamer\u2019s associations, and how much is from not only your prior knowledge of the dreamer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":125087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[969],"class_list":["post-125086","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n