The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams: Family and Other Relationship Systems Perspectives [Hardcover]

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 OBeirne, 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 Minds Amazing Creativity (PMID Step 3).  7. Emotions in Dreams: Intrinsically Honest (PMID Step 4).  8. Solutions and Suggestions in Dreams: Answers to the Dreamers 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 Individuals 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. Cartwrights RISC Model, Rosalind Cartwright and Lynne Lamberg.

For both students and practicing therapists, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioners needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations.  Its main focus is on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts.  Readers will fl38