Dream-Telling Differences in Psychotherapy: The Dream as an Allusion

Alder, Marie-Luise

doi:10.7565/landp.v5i2.1558

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“…The participants' discussions about the influence of theoretical orientation on dream sharing in therapy, aligned with previous findings about dreams and theoretical orientation (see Alder, 2017;Freeman & White, 2002;Montangero, 2009;Schredl et al, 2000). When asked about her psychologists not initiating dream work, the fourth participant attributed it to many Australian psychologists being trained in CBT, which she had not heard of being a dream-focused type of therapy.…”

Section: Training and Theoretical Orientationsupporting

confidence: 82%

Client experiences and understandings of dreams in contemporary Australian psychological practice: An IPA study.

Leonard¹,

Dawson²

2023

Dreaming

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Identifying and understanding the beliefs, experiences, and expectations of clients around dreams in psychological practice can assist psychologists to avoid or minimize unintended, negative consequences of mismatches in expectations between the client and the psychologist. In this study, 5 adult Australian clients undertook semistructured interviews in which they explained their experiences and perceptions of dreams in psychological practice. An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was used, and the themes emerging from the analysis clustered around participants’ experiences (with emotions ranging from feeling pressured, frustrated, or vulnerable, to feeling relief or validation), and their underlying assumptions or rules, around what to share (or not share) with whom, and when. The participants’ explanations for their experiences and opinions reflected their underlying individual and sociocultural understandings of both psychotherapy and dreams, with references made to dream beliefs, the stage of therapy, and psychologist cues. The findings highlight the value of approaching therapy (and dream sharing in therapy) from a social/cultural practice framework. This framework understands interactions or exchanges between psychologists and clients as being influenced by a range of cultural assumptions, which both parties bring into the therapy room with them.

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Section: Training and Theoretical Orientationsupporting

confidence: 82%

Client experiences and understandings of dreams in contemporary Australian psychological practice: An IPA study.

Leonard¹,

Dawson²

2023

Dreaming

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“…There are packages that are much more complicated which can be illustrated by an interesting observation about dream-telling (published in detail by Alder, 2016). In a 4th session another female patient talks about her interest in dreams; that she had series of repeated dreams, that she likes dreaming and sees dreaming as part of herself.…”

Section: The Allusive Shockmentioning

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From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

Buchholz

Kächele

2017

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Independent of theoretical orientation therapies of all kind are talk-in-interaction. Influential overall conceptualizations (as e.g. intervention) belong to a certain model of medicalizing the psychotherapeutic endeavor. Talk-in-interaction is the base for applying Conversation Analysis (CA) in psychotherapeutic process research. CA is a powerful tool originating from social science taking data, hypotheses and theories from careful observing in a similar way as infant observers did. The common discovery is that conversation precedes language. Some features of infantile proto-conversation survive in adult life. CA has directed careful attention to processes like turn-taking, repair, conditional relevances, etc. in observing the rules of interaction. However, in studying psychotherapy process turn-by-turn analysis alone does not suffice. It can be completed by a new model of common ground activities and package-by-package analysis turning attention to new objects of observation in therapeutic conversation (allusions, metaphorical framing activities). We propose a methodology for both kinds of analyses based on transcribed examples from the CEMPP-Project. This exploratory designed project (Conversation analysis of empathy in Psychotherapy Process; supported by the Köhler Foundation, Germany) compared psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatments in five dyads each taking transcribed sessions from the beginning, the middle phase and the end; our database includes 45 transcribed sessions.

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Thinking the Dream: Dream and Dream Thinking in Sigmund Freud, Hanna Segal, and Wilfred Bion

Angeloch¹

2023

Am J Psychoanal

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Dream-Telling Differences in Psychotherapy: The Dream as an Allusion

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Client experiences and understandings of dreams in contemporary Australian psychological practice: An IPA study.

Client experiences and understandings of dreams in contemporary Australian psychological practice: An IPA study.

From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

Thinking the Dream: Dream and Dream Thinking in Sigmund Freud, Hanna Segal, and Wilfred Bion

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