Dream Sociometry
Subtitle: a Multi-Perspectival Path to the Transpersonal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781351137461
Subjects: Dreams; Therapeutic use; Transpersonal psychology; Onirothérapie; Psychologie transpersonnelle
Description: "This unique book is the first of two volumes that describe a new, transpersonal model for therapeutic work on dreams.?Dream Sociometry, a form of Integral Deep Listening (IDL) life drama and dream character interviewing, contributes to the fields of application of the sociometric methods of J.L. Moreno and the use of sociometry in therapy, to support and direct personal development. The book describes an experiential, multi-perspectival integral life practice through accessing "emerging potentials," or perspectives that integrate, transcend, and include one's current context and predicament. Dream Sociometry provides a thoroughly phenomenological approach, suspending interpretation as well as assumptions about the reality and usefulness of synchronicities, mystical experiences, waking accidents, dreams, and nightmares, in favour of listening to dream characters and personifications of important life issues in a respectful and integral way. It thereby provides an important doorway to both causal and non-dual awareness by accessing perspectives that personify both, and will open doors for those interested not only in dream research, but in reducing anxiety disorders, such as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorders, and seeing through the often literal and concrete interpretations that we often give both physical and mental illness as well as mystical experiences.?Offering a fresh and unique approach to both dreamwork and self-development through sociometric methodologies,?this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, transpersonal, experiential and action therapies, as well as postgraduate students studying psychology and sociology."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 1 What is Dream Sociometry?  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 2 Benefits of Dream Sociometry  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 3 The origins of Dream Sociometry  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 4 Interviewed dream characters and your waking roles  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 5 Enhancing dream recall  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 6 Recording your dreams  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 7 Purpose of the Dream Sociomatrix  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 8 The dream elements  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 9 Element categorization  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 10 Making predictions  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 11 Structure of the Dream Sociomatrix  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 12 Obtaining interviewed dream character preferences  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 13 Agreement in the Dream Sociomatrix  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 14 Ambivalence in the Dream Sociomatrix  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 15 Interviewed character categories and attributes  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 16 Structure of the Dream Sociomatrix Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 17 Functions of the Dream Sociomatrix Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 18 Overview of commentary construction and creation of the Action Plan  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 19 The Dream Summary Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 20 Constructing the Dreamage  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 21 Creating the Waking Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 22 The Identification Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 23 Designing your Action Plan  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 24 The Dream Sociogram Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 25 The Dream Group Dynamics Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 26 What I am saying to myself is ...  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 27 The Dream Group Feedback Commentary  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 28 Evaluating your predictions  -- Joseph Dillard; title: chapter 29 Using Dream Sociometry with waking events -- Joseph Dillard.