64th Annual Conference

Thursday, March 8

All-Day Workshops

10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M. & 2:45-6:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 1a

Three Personal and Interpersonal Uses of Dreams in Groups

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience.

Chair:         

Robi Friedman, Ph.D., Private Practice, Haifa, Israel

After a demonstration of some approaches to the work with dreams in groups, theoretical explanations of the working rational will be given. Informative, Formative and Transformative approaches to dreams will be experienced. Especially evidence of the intersubjective impact of dream telling vs. dreaming will be searched through a group dialogue.

demonstration, didactic, experiential, sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1 Apply Foulkesian principles of reciprocity and intersubjectivity to the work with the unconscious of individuals in relation.

2 Specify the methods of working with dreams.

3 Differentiate between different approaches and apply them to the issue of “when and how” to work with a dream.

4 Indicate how personal and group processes may be connected.

Course References:

1. Fosshage, J. (2000). The Organizing Functions of Dreaming- A contemporary psychoanalytic model. Commentary on Paper by I. Hazel. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 10(1), 103-117.  

2. Friedman, R. (2004). Dreamtelling as a Request for Containment – Reconsidering the group-analytic approach to the work with dreams. Group Analysis. 37(4), 508-524.

3. Sedlak, V. (1997). The Dream Space And Countertransference. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 78, 295-305.