Posted by wittgensteinz on September 30, 2010, at 3:38:06
A question for you: Do dreams play an (important) part in your therapy? Do you talk about them? Is it helpful?
I'm a little bit busy with this topic at the moment. I am a vivid dreamer and if I take the effort could easily recall my dreams in quite some detail BUT I have never been much into doing so. Maybe I find it too intimate/private and also the discomfort of not really understanding psychoanalytic dream interpretation. My dreams are mine, and to that extent I am responsible for them, yet I do not have control over their content. These factors make me feel very vulnerable/wary when sharing them.
This is one area of my therapy for which I feel considerable resistance. My analyst has never commented on it really although seems quite engaged when I do happen to share a dream, and a couple of times the dreams have lead to some interesting work. I know from his books that he is a specialist in dream analysis. I (bravely) brought up my resistance to dream-sharing a couple of weeks back (admitting that it is not that I don't recall the dreams, but that I avoid sharing them) and he challenged me to do so - so I am beginning to keep a note of them so that I can easily recall them in session.
Maybe I am a little skeptical. I have decided to write a paper on it from different perspectives (neuroscience/psychoanalytic) and he has lent me some of his articles.
Witti
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