Deepening Dream Work: Types of Dreams & Cultivating Dreaming (How to Remember Dreams)
CPD courses & points for psychologists in South Africa
Enhance your therapeutic toolkit with this in-depth course for South African psychologists on dream work.
The primary objective of this talk is to enrich professionals' comprehension and recognition of the diverse types of dreams. By honing their ability to discern between different dream categories, professionals can enhance their capacity for insight, empathy, and therapeutic intervention.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
- Identify and classify different types of dreams, including compensatory, transference, mundane, archetypal, anxiety dreams, and nightmares, within clinical and theoretical contexts.
- Describe and compare the structural characteristics of various dream types, including narrative flow, symbolic density, and emotional tone.
- Analyse how dream structure varies according to dream type and psychological function.
- Apply practical strategies to enhance dream recall in themselves or clients, in support of therapeutic dream work.
- Evaluate the relevance and clinical usefulness of recalled dream material for therapeutic exploration.
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