Embodied dreams

Authors

  • Christiane Geiser

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2021-2-47

Keywords:

dream, Rogers, Gendlin, experience, process, movement, physical body, situational body, focusing, felt sense

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to dreams in person-centered, experiential body psychotherapy as taught in the GFK training institute in Zurich. After introductory therapy-theoretical considerations, a detailed, annotated case presentation is used to show how the course of therapy, including dream experience, consistently returns to the female client’s frame of reference and supports her inner movement in relation to her own experience. In doing so, different modalities are studied and developed that are possible for the client and that continue the process. The therapist is present in the relationship as a person with her own experiential resonances.

Author Biography

Christiane Geiser

Christiane Geiser ist Psychotherapeutin, Supervisorin, Mitbegründerin und ehemalige Ausbildungsleiterin des Ausbildungsinstitut GFK für personzentriert-experienzielle und körperorientierte Psychotherapie in Zürich. Sie arbeitet international als Ausbilderin und Supervisorin und ist zertifizierende Koordinatorin des Internationalen Focusing Instituts in New York.
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Published

2021-10-13

How to Cite

Geiser, C. (2021). Embodied dreams. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 11(2), 47–54. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2021-2-47

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2021): Traumbearbeitung in verschiedenen Psychotherapie-Richtungen

Section

Special Issue

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