Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams

by Eugene T. Gendlin

A Profound Method to Work with Dreams In research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Gendlin found that certain specific bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of a new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream. Theories about dreams differ and give contradictory interpretations. Dr. Gendlin derives 16 questions from the many existing theories to aid you, the dreamer, in. the process of interpretation. In this book Dr. Gendlin teaches you to ask the questions so that your body can respond . You learn to recognize how it feels when a question is about to lead to a breakthrough. You learn to let the question complete itself so that the dream opens and you know without doubt what it is about. The first stage is learning what the dream is about. But this alone may not yet tell you anything you did not know before. The second stage is getting something new from the dream for your own development. The BIAS CONTROL solves what was, until now, an insurmountable People could not interpret their own dreams because they always imposed their usual biases on them. The BIAS CONTROL shows you how to open yourself to a new step. Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has written books and articles in philosophy and psychology. His work has been translated into more than seven languages. He was for many years the editor of Theory, Research, and Practice. In 1970 he was chosen by the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association for their first "Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year" Award.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1985

About the author

Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher and psychotherapist who developed ways of thinking about and working with living process, the bodily felt sense and the 'philosophy of the implicit'. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago where he also taught for many years. He is best known for Focusing and for Thinking at the Edge, two procedures for thinking with more than patterns and concepts.

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Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could tell this book was going to change my life. Gendlin doesn't hide behind language or concepts to try to mystify and complicate something that happens everyday. Not that working with dreams is not complex and does not require great attention and openness. But this book is to point out that if all you really need is attention and openness--well, ANY of us can begin to understand and change our lives through thinking about our dreams. I can't recommend this book enough.

[Castles · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful transformative work, one of those books that stops you to ask - so what's going on with me anyway? I love the fact he's not putting down other theories but works with them, and that like the book about focusing, there's a great lesson of his about the art of listening.

[Danielle Shroyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really useful application of focusing technique as it relates to dreamwork. I really loved it.

[Ben Rowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very practical guide. I do think you need to read and understand the focussing concept for it to work. I would have liked more theoretical and philosophical underpinnings but as a practical guide and a good illustration to use focussing techniques it does very well at working for practitioners and lay people concurrently

[Marie Judson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book.