Dreams and Professional Personhood: The Contexts of Dream Telling and Dream Interpretation among American PsychotherapistsTwo community mental health centers in the Northeastern United States form the setting for this ethnographic study of dreams, dream telling, and dream interpretation. To gather information about American attitudes toward dreams and dream telling, the author observed and interviewed employees of these centers: social workers, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, secretaries, and medical technicians. The issues that emerge from the interviews are analyzed and clarified by exploring Western understandings of the concepts of person and self, and of professional personhood--the capacities and responsibilities ascribed to you by yourself and others in your milieu as professionals. The book also contains a comprehensive literature review of the research on dreams and an appendix of narrative statements made by informants on their dreams, their work, and their relationships. |
Contents
Introduction Background and Foreground | 1 |
Research in Physiology of Dreaming and Dream Psychology | 3 |
Clinical Observation and Research in Dreams | 6 |
Anthropological Research in Dreams and Dream Telling | 14 |
Issues of Space | 22 |
Issues of Space | 26 |
Analytic Concepts and Research Questions | 41 |
The Psychotherapist Simply as a Person | 45 |
Psychotherapy Dream Telling and Hierarchy | 147 |
Who Is a Real Doctor? | 148 |
Reading the Mind and the Importance of Biology | 163 |
The Dream Interpretation Hierarchy | 165 |
Womans Work and Womens Professions | 168 |
Tending the Body and Listening to the Person | 183 |
The DreamHearing Range | 186 |
Conclusion | 189 |
Analytic Concepts of Person and Self | 46 |
Professional Setting and Home Base | 49 |
The Enduring Experiencing Person | 68 |
The Dreaming Self and the Working Person | 71 |
Summary and Conclusion | 82 |
The Contexts of Dream Telling | 85 |
Emic Perspectives | 86 |
Emic and Etic Perspectives | 88 |
Typology of Dream Telling Contexts | 90 |
When Contexts Converge | 99 |
Conclusion | 115 |
Dream Interpretation Freudian Mythology and the American Mystique of Dreams | 119 |
The Exploration Process and Method | 120 |
Local Ideas about Dream Interpretation | 121 |
Three Dreams | 128 |
The Contexts of Dream Interpretation | 139 |
The Popularization of Freud and the American Mystique of Dreams | 143 |
Showing the Person and Knowing the Person | 191 |
Not Showing the Person | 193 |
Showing that One Knows Oneself | 194 |
The Incongruities between Person and Self | 196 |
The Disjunction of Mind and Body | 197 |
How Contexts Are Described | 201 |
The Meaning of Crazy | 207 |
Psychological Mindedness | 209 |
Higher FunctioningLower Functioning | 211 |
Who Is a Real Doctor? What Psychiatrists Said | 215 |
Hierarchical Issues | 219 |
Which of the Psychotherapy Professionals Are More Likely to Ask about and Listen to Dreams? | 227 |
Notes | 233 |
Bibliography | 241 |
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