A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy

A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy demystifies the process of working with dreams by providing both a grounding in the current science of dreaming as well as a simple, practical approach to clinical dream work.

Leslie Ellis is an author, teacher and psychotherapist with a lifelong interest in dreams. She is a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy and she specializes in teaching focusing, dreamwork and nightmare treatment.

Introduction 1. Fast-track to deep waters: why work with dreams? 2. Bringing it home: inviting dreamwork into your practice, and your life 3. Common factors: toward a universal approah to working with dreams 4. Mapping the route: the science of why we dream 5. Understanding the terrain: the dream is born in metaphor 6. From ordinary to sublime: kinds of dreams 7. Navigating the dream divide: woman in the mirror dream 8. The central quest: finding the life force inherent in all dreams 9. Avenues of exploration: visual art and technology 10. The inner journey: dreams and the body 11. Perfect storms: working with nightmares and bad dreams 12. Nightmares and health: why treatment is imperative 13. Nightmare relief: an embodied experiential treatment protocol 14. Fellow travellers: working with dreams in groups 15. How dreams enlarge us: big dreams 16. Transformation: dreamwork as a catalyst for change Index