Dreaming in the World

Authors

  • Peter Philippson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2021-2-41

Keywords:

dream, artworks, field processes, interpretation, waking dreams, dreams as reality, couples

Abstract

I think dreams are very important in a number of ways. I share a sense of the significance of dreaming with Sigmund Freud and Fritz Perls. I regularly bring work with dreams into my therapy, training and groupwork as a way that orients our sense of what is happening both individually and collectively. I will write this in two parts. The first part is an overview of how I understand dreams and different ways I have been working with them as a therapist. The second part introduces a way of working with dreams that I have developed in the past few years, that takes both the understanding and the work in a different direction that collapses the strict separation between waking and dreaming.

Author Biography

Peter Philippson

Peter Philippson, M. Sc., is a UKCP Registered Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, a Teaching and Supervising Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK. He is a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre, Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, Senior Trainer for GITA (Slovenia), faculty member IPsiG (Turin), advisory board member Center for Somatic Studies, founder member of IG-FEST and Past President of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy.
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Published

2021-10-13

How to Cite

Philippson, P. (2021). Dreaming in the World. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 11(2), 41–46. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2021-2-41