Trauma and Dream Work: Mending Tears in the Fabric of Time.

IF 2.3 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Cory K Chen, Nicole Nehrig
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Abstract

Working with dreams in the context of trauma can open unique avenues for healing, in particular for patients who report feelings of numbness or a loss of meaning in their lives. Dream exploration can make facing aspects of trauma and dissociated experience more tolerable than explicitly addressing them at a conscious level. It can also reignite the capacities for reflection and meaning making disrupted by trauma. Dreams also reconnect patients to aspects of their history that can provide context for and meaning to experiences from which they have come to feel emotionally disconnected. Finally, dreams offer a way of regaining the capacity to connect with wishes, hopes, and desires that have become difficult to access because of trauma. In this article, the authors present case examples of patients with trauma and discuss how therapists worked with dream material to unlock new possibilities for these patients' lives.

创伤与梦想工作:修补时间结构中的撕裂。
在创伤的背景下处理梦境可以为治疗开辟独特的途径,特别是对于那些表示感觉麻木或生活失去意义的患者。与在意识层面上明确解决这些问题相比,梦境探索可以使患者更容易面对创伤和分离体验的各个方面。它还能重新唤起被创伤破坏的反思能力和意义建构能力。梦境还能让患者重新认识自己的历史,从而为他们感到情感分离的经历提供背景和意义。最后,梦境提供了一种方法,让患者重新获得与愿望、希望和渴望相连接的能力,而这些愿望、希望和渴望因创伤而变得难以触及。在本文中,作者介绍了一些创伤患者的案例,并讨论了治疗师如何利用梦境材料为这些患者的生活开启新的可能性。
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
4.00%
发文量
39
期刊介绍: Founded in 1939, the American Journal of Psychotherapy (AJP) has long been a leader in the publication of eclectic articles for all psychotherapists. Transtheoretic in reach (offering information for psychotherapists across all theoretical foundations), the goal of AJP is to present an overview of the psychotherapies, subsuming a host of schools, techniques, and psychological modalities within the larger domain of clinical practice under broad themes including dynamic, behavioral, spiritual, and experiential.
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