1. Working with a Dream

1.1.  The Dream of the Two Taxi Drivers

1.2.   An Analysis Using the Dreamreading Method

1.3.   Analysis Summary

1.4.   Possible Dreamwork

2. Dreamreading Theory and Terminology

2.1.Which Dreams are Suitable for Dreamwork?

2.2.How Do We Know We Have Correctly Interpreted a Dream?

2.3.What Distinguishes the Dreamreading Method?

2.4.Why are Dreams not Much Used in Health Care?

2.5.Common Motifs versus Individualized Content

2.6.   What is Individualized Content?

2.7.   Psychodynamic Group versus Pattern/Field Group

2.8.  Ongoing Dreamwork

2.9.  Glossary of Terms

3. A Session of Dreamwork

3.1.Overview of the Dreamwork Session

3.2Catching the Dream

3.2.1.          Stimulating Dream Recall

3.2.2.          Holding on to Dreams and Keeping Them Alive

3.2.3.          Preparing for the Dreamwork Session

3.3.Amplifying the Dream

3.3.1.Basic Listening

3.3.2.Re-entering the Dream Together

3.4.Orienting Yourself Within the Dreamscape

3.4.1.Orienting Through Motif Recognition

3.4.2.The Narrative Structure of Dreams

3.4.3.Exploring the Block

3.5.Connecting the Dream to the Dreamer’s Life

3.5.1.Connecting Through Feeling Tones

3.5.2.Connecting Through Highlighting a Pattern

3.5.3.Connecting Through Identifying With a Part

3.6.Responding to the Dream

3.6.1Anchoring the Dream

3.6.2Honoring the Dream

3.6.3Using Ritual for Completing and Moving On

3.6.4Rituals of Removal

4. The Psychodynamic Dream Motifs

4.1.  Ego Check Motifs

4.1.1What are Ego check Motifs?

4.1.2Common Ego Check Motifs

4.1.3Dreamwork for Ego Check Motifs

4.1.4.In a vehicle without good control

Dream—“Sliding Over the Edge”

4.1.5.Dictators and despots

Dream—“The Disarming Handshake”

4.1.6.   Banishing, caging, and killing

4.2.  Self Exploration Motifs

4.2.1.What are Self exploration Motifs?

4.2.2.Common Self Exploration Motifs

4.2.3.Dreamwork for Self Exploration Motifs

Dream—“Helikos”

4.2.4.Motifs of Venturing out in/on the water

Dream—“Venturing Out in a Boat”

4.2.4.  Guides and Psychopomps

4.3.  Shadow Motifs

4.3.1.What are  Shadow Motifs?

4.3.2.Common Shadow Motifs

4.3.3.   Dreamwork for Shadow Motifs

4.3.4.Complexed shadow motifs

4.3.5.Toilet Trouble Motifs

4.3.6.Dreamwork for Toilet Trouble Motifs

4.4.  Personal Spirit Motifs

4.4.1.   What is the Personal Spirit?

4.4.2.   Common Personal Spirit Motifs

4.4.3.   Dreamwork for Personal Spirit Motifs

4.4.4.   Building a Good Relationship

Dream—“Pin in My Head”

4.5.  Inspiring Contact Motifs

4.5.1.  Attraction and eroticism

4.5.2.  Identification with a substance in nature

4.5.3.  Teachers and mentors

4.5.4.  Gifts, treasure, money

4.5.5.  Spiritual or religious experience

4.5.6.  Soulful and Spiritual Places.

5. The Pattern/Field Motifs

5.1.  Brain Field Motifs

5.1.1.  What are Brain Field Motifs?

5.1.2.  Neuro-disconnection and Fragmentation

5.1.3.  Motifs of Neuro-disconnection

5.1.4.  Dreamwork for Neuro-disconnection Motifs

5.1.5.  Motifs of Surging Affect

5.1.6.Dreamwork for Motifs of Surging Affect

5.1.7.Neuro-repetition

5.1.8.Common Motifs of Neuro-repetition

5.1.9.Dreamwork for Neuro-repetition Motifs

5.2.  Body Hot Spot Motifs

5.2.1.  What are Body Hot Spots?

5.2.2.  Common Body Hot Spot Motifs

5.2.3.  Dreamwork for Body Hot Spots

5.2.4.  Problem With the Vessel

5.3.  Introject Motifs

5.3.1.  What are Introjects?

5.3.2.  Common Introject Motifs

5.3.3.Distinguishing Introjects and Body Hot Spots

5.3.4.Dreamwork for Introject Motifs

Dream—“The Mechanical Scorpion”

5.4.  Miasm Motifs

5.4.1.   What is a  Miasm?

5.4.2.The Sycotic Miasm-- Shame and Hiding

5.4.3.Common Sycotic Miasm Motifs

5.4.4.The Cancer Miasm-- Chaos and Control

5.4.5.Common Cancer Miasm Motifs

5.4.6.The Tubercular Miasm--Trapped in the Wrong Life

5.4.7.Common Tubercular Miasm Motifs

5.4.8.The Syphilitic Miasm-- Pointlessness and Despair

5.4.9.Common Syphilitic Miasm Motifs

5.4.10.Features Common to All Miasm Motifs

5.4.11.Dreamwork for Miasm Motifs

5.5.  External Limitation Motifs

5.5.1.  What are External Problem Motifs?

5.5.2.  The Bonsai and Other Stunted Trees

5.5.3.Limitations People Live With

5.5.4.Dreamwork for External Problem Motifs

5.5.5.Individual Healing versus Social Constraint

5.6.  Problematic Self Care System Motifs

5.6.1.What is a Self Care System?

5.6.2.How Do Self Care Systems Appear in Dreams?

5.6.3.   Systems Involving Substance Abuse

5.6.3.Systems Involving Self Persecution

5.6.4.Guarded Systems

5.6.5.Systems Involving a Pathology

5.6.6.Dreamwork for Self Care System Motifs

Dream—“The Two Guards”

5.7.Perinatal Motifs

5.7.1.Perinatal Patterns

5.7.2.Templates of Transformation

5.7.3.Sperm Seeking Egg Motifs

5.7.4.Clinical Relevance of Sperm Seeking Egg Motifs

5.7.5.Dreamwork for Sperm Seeking Egg Motifs

5.7.6.Fertilization/Conception Motifs

5.7.7.Clinical Relevance of Fertilization/Conception Motifs

5.7.8.Dreamwork for Fertilization/Conception Motifs

5.7.9.Fallopian Survival Motifs

5.7.10.Clinical Relevance of Fallopian Survival Motifs

5.7.11.Dreamwork for Fallopian Survival Motifs

5.7.12.Implantation Motifs

5.7.13.Clinical Relevance of Implantation Motifs

5.7.14.Dreamwork for Implantation Motifs

5.7.15.Incarnation Motifs

5.7.16.Clinical Relevance of Incarnation Dreams

5.7.17.Dreamwork for Incarnation Dreams

5.7.18.Flying, Floating, and Falling Dreams

5.7.19.Labor and Birth Motifs

5.7.20.Clinical Relevance of Labor and Birth Motifs

5.7.21.Dreamwork for Labor and Birth Motifs