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In Working With Dreams, Dr. Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras demonstrates her powerful approach to working with clients' dreams. Dreams frequently come up for discussion in the course of therapy, and the insights clients might gain from dreams can help the therapeutic process. In this self-directed approach, Dr. Koch-Sheras teaches clients to use a special technique called "dream language" to describe their dreams, which emphasizes the client's own creation of the dream. By translating the dream language and role-playing aspects of the dream, clients gain insight that may reflect on their lives. Dr. Koch-Sheras helps the client to translate her dream and obtain some lessons from the dream, including ways to apply these lessons during her waking life.
Dr. Koch-Sheras's self-directed approach to dream work is a powerful process for enhancing the effectiveness of psychotherapy that goes beyond understanding the dream as an end in itself. Her approach brings the dreamer actively into the process of dream work and its application to current life experience, rather than approaching dream interpretation as a passive exercise that focuses on the client's needs and dependence on the therapist to meet them.
Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras, PhD, is a practicing clinical psychologist and coauthor of several books on dreams and dream work, including The Dream Sourcebook (1995), The Dream Sharing Sourcebook (1998), The Dream Sourcebook Journal (2000), and Dream on: A Dream Interpretation and Exploration Guide for Women (1983). She is past-president of the Virginia Applied Psychology Academy and the Virginia Psychological Association. Dr. Koch-Sheras received her doctorate from the University of Texas and completed her internship at the VA Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. She has worked in state hospitals, university counseling centers, and has maintained an active independent practice for more than 25 years. During that time, she has specialized in working with dreams, couples, families and groups. Dr. Koch-Sheras is an adjunct faculty member in the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.
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