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Monday, February 9, 2009

What your dreams are telling you


Most psychotherapists love to work with dreams. As Freud said, “dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” Even if you’re not convinced about Freud, the fact remains that while we’re sleeping we have much greater access to our brains. We can explore our unconscious conflicts, recall distant memories, and create wonderful metaphorical images to explain our inner conflicts. The tricky part is to figure out what your sleeping brain was telling you once you’re awake.

Most psychotherapists love to work with dreams. As Freud said, “dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” Even if you’re not convinced about Freud, the fact remains that while we’re sleeping we have much greater access to our brains. We can explore our unconscious conflicts, recall distant memories, and create wonderful metaphorical images to explain our inner conflicts. The tricky part is to figure out what your sleeping brain was telling you once you’re awake.

That’s where dream interpretation techniques come in. In general, dreams are triggered by recent events – significant happenings, thoughts, conversations – that occurred in the day or days before the dream. Then the unconscious links your thoughts and feelings about these events to other thoughts and feelings from your past. Dreams let us know what are anxieties are, what our major inner conflicts and relationship conflicts are about, and so much more.

Anyone can access the meaning of their dreams. A psychotherapist can help because of her training in dream interpretation as well her experience with lots of dreams. I trained for years with a psychoanalyst named Montague Ullman who devoted the last 30 years of his career to developing a group method of dream interpretation. The process involves a group of dreamers meeting once a week or so. In each meeting, one member volunteers a dream and the group then works together to help the dreamer understand his dream. There are a number of steps the group works through to bring out the full meaning of the dream. It is highly effective and almost magical to those involved. It deepens self-knowledge and fosters a true sense of community.

I’ll give more specifics about the method in a future post.

If you’d like to join a dream group in New York City, email me at annecutler.psychoanalyst@gmail.com or call 917.684.6515.

1 comments:

Anonymous,  March 22, 2009 at 6:43 AM  

I believe this information to be true. As a minor I would assist my friends with dream interpretation. Now as an adult it seems to have the ability to expand to clairvoyance. Understanding myself better helps me understand purpose. Once everything made sense I gained a feeling that should not be missed by any of us. I draw to this like a mosquito to a light. Keep up the good work.

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