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This is the process of determining the meanings of dreams through symbols, myths, free association, and memories. There are a variety of philosophies and approaches for analyzing dreams including Adlerian (dreams are projections of a person's current concerns), Gestalt (every person and object in a dream represents an aspect of the dreamer), and psychoanalytic (dreams are a key to what is happening in a person's unconscious).
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) This technique works with restructuring thought patterns and associations related to traumatic events and memories and other sources of emotional distress. The method was developed by Francine Shapiro when she discovered that rapid eye movements combined with focusing on disturbing thoughts and memories produced a lessening of the disturbance.
A philosophy of life, rather than a specific therapy, this approach focuses on free will, responsibility for choices, and search for meaning and purpose through suffering, love, and work. People are seen as constantly changing and becoming their true selves. Searching within and finding one's own answers is encouraged. Emphasis is on the present and future, not the past. See works by Viktor Frankl (b.1905), Rollo May (b.1909), and Irvin Yalom.
Therapy which looks at the entire family as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs, and patterns. Each family member plays a part in the system and family systems therapy helps an individual discover how their family operates, their role in the system, and how it affects them in their current family as well as in relationships outside the family.
A therapy which focuses on empowering women and helping women discover how to break free from some of the traditional molds that they may feel are blocking their growth and development. Feminist therapy tends to be more focused on strengthening women in areas such as communication, assertiveness, self-esteem, and relationships. |
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