Dreams and the Person-centered Approach

Andrea Koch has masters in person-centered counseling, public management and human geography. Born in Germany, she spent most of her childhood in the US and lived her first decade as an adult in the Netherlands. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany and has worked for 25 years in NGOs striving for justice, peace and reconciliation. She is developing ways to integrate dream experiencing, Focusing, and a person-centered way of being, with political activism.

• Introduction 1. Situating Dreaming and Dreams in Person-Centered Theory and Practice. Rogers and dreams; Coming to a contemporary person-centered theory on dreaming; The significance of sharing dreams within therapy; Summary of the main points. 2. Sensing Into Dreams: Charting the Territory. Rogers'description of the creative process; Delineating the client space; The counselor's coordinates; Summary of the main points. 3. Experiencing the Territory with Three Dreams. 'The Museum Dream': Relational person-centered dreamsensing with Helga Lemke;'The damp and crowded cloakroom dream': Focusing and dreamsensing with Barbara McGavin; 'The Nothing to set up dream': Structural dreamsensing with Clara Hill; Differentiating the dream sessions: A client's perspective. 4. Guiding Through the Territory. Dream work in therapy: Facilitating exploration, insight and action; The relational person-centered approach; Focusing and dreamsensing; Diverging pathways?; Which path to travel?; Summary of this chapter. 5. Concluding Thoughts