Dream Interpretation

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Psychopathology

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Result of decreased self-awareness

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Gestalt Therapy:

Goals of Treatment

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Help people focus on the "here & now!"
-techniques: directed awareness, dream analysis, empty chair, discouragement of questions
-false compassion is bad for the people to whom you give it

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Gestalt Dreams

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- When you see dream material - hard to deny projections
- you are what you see especially if it is negative
- Fritz believed: every part of the dream is a part of yourself; not just the person (in your dream) but every item, mood, anything that comes across
- Vignette: "Meg"

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Gestalt

Dream Theory

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1.) Use everything in a dream
2.) encounter with unknown/unacknowledged parts of self
3.) Externalize and then re-own
4.) Kinesthetics

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Additional Dream Elements

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- Two basic laws (graph)
- Dreams are interpreted and understood by means of awareness & “insight”
- Assume responsibility for the dream experience
- Encounter the impediments with their conflicts, etc. in the present
- Sense intuitive insights about the dream
- Recognize denied aspects of yourself and move towards reintegration which is curative & self-supporting

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Jung

Developmental Theory

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*Archetypes = "universal" in basic form & "unique" in their individual manifestation
*Human being is not born as a "blank slate" (no tabula rasa)
*Jung was an early Ethologist
*Developmental psychology could have no basis in fact or theory unless it was grounded in biology

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Types of Archetypes

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1.) Self
2.) Persona
3.) Shadow: archetype of darkness and repression, representing the qualities that we do not wish to acknowledge and attempt to hide from ourselves and others.
4.) Anima: the feminine side of men and originates in the collective unconscious as as an archetype and remains extremely resistant to consciousness.
- Animus: the masculine side of women and originates in the collective unconscious as an archetype, and is also resistant to consciousness.

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Model of the Human Psyche - Levels

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Ego > conscious mind
Personal Unconscious > complexes and associated ideas converge; similar to Freud's "unconscious and preconscious
Collective Unconscious > psychic inheritance (as a species); Archetypes

- strongly asserted that the most important part of the unconscious springs not from personal experiences of the individual but from the distant past of human existence, a concept called the collective unconscious; consciousness plays a small role.

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Developmental Framework

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*Life's purpose lies in the progressive realization of the archetypal program (incorporated within the "Self" archetype.

*Archetypes
-Universal Neurological Patterns
-inherent impulses

Individuation: we are in the process of "becoming" (the "undiscovered" self is forever imminent.

Development continues throughout life

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Jung

Dream Theory

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- Dream process is “in-born”
- No latent content
- Conscious (words) & Unconscious (symbolism) are speaking different languages
- Must analyze everything in a dream
- Intuitive nature of dream analysis (due to collective unconscious)

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Jung

Analytical psychology

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- A psychology of opposites, and self-realization is the process of integrating the opposite poles into a single homogenous individual.

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Jung

Psychotherapy - 4 components

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1. Word Association Test
2. Dream Analysis
3. Active Imagination
4. Four Basic Approaches

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Jung

Psychotherapy - Word Association Test

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a. Responses reveal complexes

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Jung

Psychotherapy - Dream Analysis

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a. reflect a variety of complexes and concepts
b. proof of the collective unconscious

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Jung

Psychotherapy - Active Imagination

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a. Requires that a person focus on an impression (dream, image, vision, picture, etc) and concentrate on it; follow the image; and attempt to communicate with it no matter where it goes.

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Jung

Psychological Types - 2

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*Union of basically two attitudes

a. Introversion: turning psychic energy inward with an orientation toward the subjective

b. Extroversion: turning psychic energy outward toward the objective and away from the subjective.

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Jung

Psychological Types - 4 Functions

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1. Sensing - tells people that something exists
2. Thinking - enables them to recognize its meaning.
3. Feeling - tells them its value or worth.
4. Intuiting - allows them to know about it without knowing how.

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Gestalt

Fritz Perl

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- genuine (authentic) emotions & interactions
- no nonsense approach
- weakness is the inability to honest with yourself and others
"A hook of a demand!"
"Wipe your own ass!"
"Curse of the nice people."
Cruel but brilliant
Unfinished business - unexpressed feelings

Changed questions into statements

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Jung
Parabola of Life's Course

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Birth - childhood -adolescent transition -early maturity - midlife transition -middle age late life transition - late maturity - death