Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
16 p.
Publication Date
3-2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Source Publication
Psychotherapy Research
Source ISSN
1050-3307
Abstract
To replicate and extend the Hill, Knox, et al. (2007) case study of a client who attained insight in one session of dream work, the authors examined two additional single-session cases: one in which a client gained insight and another in which a client did not. The observations across all three cases suggest that the two clients who acquired insight had positive attitudes toward dreams; were motivated and involved in session; and were nonresistant, trusting, and affectively present but not overwhelmed. The client who did not gain insight questioned the value of dreams and was resistant, untrusting, and emotionally overwhelmed. Therapist adherence and competence using the dream model, ability to manage countertransference, and effective use of probes for insight distinguished the therapists whose clients gained insight from the therapist whose client did not.
Recommended Citation
Knox, Sarah; Hill, Clara E.; Hess, Shirley A.; and Crook-Lyon, Rachel E., "Case Studies of the Attainment of Insight in Dream Sessions: Replication and Extension" (2008). College of Education Faculty Research and Publications. 27.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/edu_fac/27
Comments
Accepted version. Psychotherapy Research, Vol. 18, No. 2 (March 2008): 200-215. DOI. © 2008 Taylor & Francis. Used with permission.