Delia Joyce Cushway, Robyn Sewell

Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Research & Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Delia Cushway's wealth of experience makes this new edition an essential read for all aspiring counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists as well as for more experienced practitioners seeking to enhance their practice' - Prof Sue Wheeler, Director of Doctoral Programme, Institute of Lifelong Learning

'I found the book fascinating, illuminating not only my client's material but also my own night-life. The book's strength lies in integrating perspectives from many different psychotherapeutic disciplines, from psychoanalytic to cognitive' - Diana Sanders, Counselling Psychologist and Cognitive Psychotherapist

This practical book shows how dreamwork can be a fruitful therapeutic tool for all therapists and practitioners in the helping professions. Emphasising that dreams are a powerful means of accessing an individual's emotions, creativity and wisdom, Delia Cushway has updated the first edition to include:

- Skills for working with trauma and survivors of sexual abuse

- Cross-cultural, spiritual and religious approaches to dreamwork

- Up-to-date research and theory on using Cognitive, Objectivist and Constructivist models and methods

- The importance of reflective practice

- Scientific functions and meanings of dreams and their role in information processing and memory consolidation.

Steeped in practical hints and tips, vivid case examples and methods of interpreting dream language, this highly accessible guide is an invaluable resource for therapists.

Delia Cushway is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Coventry University and a practising Registered Clinical Psychologist.

Robyn Sewell is a Chartered Psychologist and Group Psychotherapist, now fully retired.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446271872
• Artikelnr.: 42154947

Autorenporträt

Delia Cushway (BA, MSc Clinical Psychology, PhD, C Psychol clin/foren, ABPsS), is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Coventry University and a practising Registered Clinical Psychologist. Delia worked for 20 years in clinical psychology training. Initially working at the University of Birmingham, she set up the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the Universities of Coventry and Warwick in 1998 and was its Director until 2008. Before working as a clinical psychologist Delia worked in the Prison Service as a psychologist, where she served the equivalent of two life sentences before getting parole! Delia grew up, psychologically speaking, at the same time as humanistic psychology and trained in the humanistic therapies of psychodrama, transactional analysis, and particularly Gestalt Therapy, in the 1970s. She has an Integrationist clinical orientation with a strong humanistic philosophical base. Delia′s research, teaching and clinical interests include dream work, reflective practice, supervision, Gestalt therapy, and stress and self-care, and she has written and published widely in these areas. Delia discovered dream working through Gestalt therapy and started running dream groups when working with prisoners, whom she discovered often had rich and colourful dream lives. In 1985 she started running dream groups, with her friend and colleague Robyn Sewell, with whom she wrote the first edition of this book. Together they ran well over 100 dream workshops including many at Vaughan College, for Leicester University′s Adult Education programme, and at Westminster Pastoral Foundation, London. Delia′s work with dreams and nightmares has continued to evolve and she has incorporated more recent cognitive approaches into her clinical practice and workshops.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Background to Dreamwork
Theories and Models of Dreamwork
The Language of Dreams
Objective Approaches to Working with Dreams
Subjective and Constructivist Approaches to Working with Dreams
Working with Nightmares
Post-Traumatic Nightmares and Night Terrors
Group and Creative Methods in Dreamwork
Themes and Issues in Dreamwork

Rezensionen

'Cushway and Sewell both have a wealth of experience in incorporating dream work into therapy. The authors cover various types of therapies -- Gestalt, cognitive, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and so on -- providing examples on how dream work can be incorporated into each. An integrative approach allows the reader/therapist to move seamlessly from one type of therapy to another and tailor methods and practices along the way. Although the authors encourage adapting the individual techniques, they also give sound practical advice. This second edition covers established theories and methods and provides substantial updates in neuroscience, dream studies, and new types of therapy. A suitable companion for other titles in the 'Therapy in Practice' series'