Amanda Dowd ANZSJA IAAP
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Dreams offer a unique ‘window’ into our unconscious life and, if related to and understood, open up the possibility for reconciling our often conflicting attitudes, beliefs and desires leading to deeper self-awareness, meaningfulness and freedom.
Dreams & Therapy
Servicing area
Bondi Junction, Woollahra, Sydney & Eastern Suburbs NSW, and Australia-wide via online consultFocus areas
Working With Dreams in Therapy
We are always ‘dreaming’ because this is what the mind does but this process occurs below the level of consciousness. Occasionally, a dream can be recalled upon waking. The rational mind can have difficulty taking dreams seriously because their symbolic language is not readily understood and so dreams are often discarded and de-valued as being ‘nothing but..’.
My approach is to understand the dream within the dreamer’s own context — there is no formulaic ‘interpretation’, rather dreams have many levels of possible meaning. I work together with patients to understand the symbolic langauge of 'their' dreams and to bring clarity about 'why this dream now?'. A Jungian approach sees dreams as describing something of the unconscious psychic situation that is bringing distress as well as pointing towards its meaningful resolution.
Benefits of understanding the meanings behind your dreams
- Reconciles your conscious and unconscious attitudes, beliefs and desires
- Resolves inner conflict
- Increases self-awareness and relationships
- Helps you understand your purpose in life
If you're interested I recommend these books: Dreams: A Portal to the Source by Edward C. Whitmont and Sylvia Brinton Perera and Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice by Marcus West
Book an appointment and also visit my website
bondijunctionpsychotherapy.com.au
for more information.
Qualifications
- Post-graduate Diploma In Analytical Psychology (cg Jung Institute Australia/nz)
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