Provides a comprehensive guide to dream work that will help clients reach core issues quickly. Presents a three-stage model of dream interpretation, using cognition and emotion in the process. Offers practical ideas and guidance to help the client make sense of events in waking life and achieve personal change. (235 pp.)
Clara E. Hill, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland. She has been the editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and is currently the North American editor of Psychotherapy Research. She is a past president of the North American and International Society for Psychotherapy Research. She has studied the efficacy of dream interpretation and the process and outcome of psychotherapy and is the author of numerous books and journal articles.
Contents Include:
The Role of Dream Interpretation in Therapy
Sleep and Dreaming
History of Dream Interpretation
A Cognitive-Experiential Model of Dream Formation and Dream Interpretation
Exploration Stage
Insight Stage
Action Stage
Therapeutic Issues in Using the Dream Interpretation Model