Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams - Eugene T. Gendlin Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

In research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Gendlin found that certain specific bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream. 

 Theories about dreams differ and give contradictory interpretations. Dr. Gendlin derived 16 questions from the many existing theories to aid you, the dreamer, in the process of interpretation. In this book, Dr. Gendlin teaches you to ask the questions so that your body can respond. You learn to recognize how it feels when a question is about to lead to a breakthrough. You learn to let the question complete itself so that the dream opens and you know without doubt what it is about. 

 The first stage is learning what the dream is about. But this alone may not tell you anything you did not know before. The second stage is getting something new from the dream for your own development. The method developed by Dr. Gendlin solves what was, until now, an insurmountable problem: People could not interpret their own dreams because they always imposed their usual biases on them. Gendlin shows you how to open yourself to a new step.

Review

Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. His work has been translated into more than seven languages. He was for many years the editor of Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice. In 1970, he was chosen by the Psychotherapy Division of hte American Psychological Association for their first "Distinguished Professional Psychologist of the Year" Award.Psychologist Gendlin (Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago) comes from Carl Rogers's circle. Following Focusing (Everest House, 1978), this book shows how Gendlin's method of tapping the body's responses can be applied to the understanding and appreciation of one's dreams. He implies, rightly, that there are many ways of interpreting dreams, based on various theoretical approaches, each with its own validity. Yet, what really counts is the dreamer's somatic response to questions raised or interpretations suggested; the body has the answer, preverbally as it were. One can feel the author's respect for the privacy of the individual and for the message of one's inner nature. Simply and clearly written, this will be useful both for the lay public and therapists. Gertrud B. Ujhely, L.I. Inst. of Psychoanalysis, Mineola, N.Y.

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Jung's Treatment of Christianity

In research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Gendlin found that certain specific bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream. Theories about dreams differ and give contradictory interpretations. Dr. Gendlin derived 16 questions from the many existing theories to aid you, the dreamer, in the process of interpretation. In this book, Dr. Gendlin teaches you to ask the questions so that your body can respond. You learn to recognize how it feels when a question is about to lead to a breakthrough. You learn to let the question complete itself so that the dream opens and you know without doubt what it is about. The first stage is learning what the dream is about. But this alone may not tell you anything you did not know before. The second stage is getting something new from the dream for your own development. The method developed by Dr. Gendlin solves what was, until now, an insurmountable problem: People could not interpret their own dreams because they always imposed their usual biases on them. Gendlin shows you how to open yourself to a new step.

Dr. Gendlin derives 16 questions from the many existing theories to aid you, the dreamer, in. the process of interpretation. In this book Dr. Gendlin teaches you to ask the questions so that your body can respond ."

Focusing

'Focusing' is a technique first developed 25 years ago by American psychologist and philosopher Eugene Gendlin. Hugely influential, it offers six specific steps you can take to open up your inner world of deeper feelings and intuition - and shows you how to listen to others with more empathy. Short, very accessible yet also profound, this book is even more relevant today than it was when originally published.

Short, very accessible yet also profound, this book is even more relevant today than it was when originally published."

The Many Faces of Time

Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. Husserl's groundbreaking investigations of the consciousness of internal time early in the century inaugurated a phenomenological tradition enriched by such figures as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Eugen Fink. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it. Many of the essays explore topics involving the deepest levels of temporal constitution, including the relationship of temporality to the self and to the world; the ways in which temporalizing consciousness and what it temporalizes present themselves; and the roles and nature of present, past, and future. Other essays develop original positions concerning history, tradition, narrative, the time of generations, the coherence of one's life, and the place of time in the visual arts. In every instance, the authors show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces.

Glencoe, IL: The Free Press. Gendlin , Eugene T . 1981. Focusing. 2d ed., rev. New York: Bantam Books. Gendlin , Eugene T . 1986. Let Your Body Interpret your Dreams . Wilmette, IL: Chiron. Gendlin , Eugene T .1989. “Phenomenology as NonLogical ..."

Authentic Promotion

Do you love your work but dread marketing it? Do you want to make a bigger contribution and thrive while you're doing it? Authentic Promotion: Grow Your Business, Feed Your Soul is a transformational marketing workbook. It will transform how you approach marketing, and it will show you how marketing can, in turn, transform your work, bringing more energy, more joy, more clarity to everything you do.

(From the Introduction by George Leonard.) Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams , Eugene T . Gendlin , Ph.D. Gendlin, who developed the practice of Focusing (see The Power of Focusing, below), outlines a method for dream interpretation that ..."

Dream Reader

A comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding dreams. If you can have only one book on dreams, this is the one to have.

 Gendlin , Eugene T . ( 1977 ) . Phenomenological concept vs. phenomenological method : a critique of Medard Boss on dreams . In Scott ( 1977a ) . Gendlin , Eugene T . ( 1986 ) . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

Current Advances in Semantic Theory

This volume contains selected contributions to the interdisciplinary symposium on 'Models of Meaning' held in Varna, September 25-28, 1988, under the auspices of the Institute of the Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the meeting was to broaden the horizons of meaning research and the modeling of linguistic semantics, with contributions centering on the appropriate modeling of lexical, syntactic, and textual-semantic representations. The papers challenge some basic notions of semantics and reveal two main avenues of development in contemporary investigations. One is toward broadening the scope of investigativeness, the second is toward a greater domain-specificity as expressed in a greater sensitivity to pragmatics and meta-pragmatic concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach ed. by John M. Shlien & Ronald Levant, 212-241. New York: Praeger. . 1986a. Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams . Wilmette, Ill.: 52 EUGENE T . GENDLIN Notes References."

William James

Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter 1(1):1,4—5, 7-8, 1 1 . ... concept vs. phenomenological method: a critique of Medard Boss on dreams. In Scott (1977a). Gendlin , Eugene T . (1986). Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

The Opening of Vision

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision.

25 Lloyd Kaufman , Perception : The World Transformed ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 ) , p . ... 39 On the dreambody , see , in particular , Eugene T . Gendlin , Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ( Peru , Illinois : Chiron ..."

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

Examining the actual moment-to-moment process of therapy, this volume provides specific ways for therapists to engender effective movement, particularly in those difficult times when nothing seems to be happening. The book concentrates on the ongoing client therapist relationship and ways in which the therapist's responses can stimulate and enable a client's capacity for direct experiencing and "focusing." Throughout, the client therapist relationship is emphasized, both as a constant factor and in terms of how the quality of the relationship is manifested at specific times. The author also shows how certain relational responses can turn some difficulties into moments of relational therapy.

A Manual of the Experiential Method Eugene T . Gendlin ... (Reprinted in H. Silverman, A. Mickunas, T . Kissel, and A. Lingis (Eds.), The Horizons of Continental Philosophy: Essays on Husserl, ... Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

On Becoming an Effective Teacher

On Becoming an Effective Teacher describes exemplary practices like Teach For America, which highlight the power of person-centered teaching to bring about higher student achievement and emotional intelligence. Lyon situates the classic with the cutting-edge, integrating wisdom with research, anecdote with practical advice, to find truths that reveal paths toward effective teaching. Jeffrey Cornelius-White, Psy.D., LPC, Professor of Counseling, Missouri State University, USA, Author of Learner Centered Instruction: Building Relationships for Student Success This fascinating book reveals through current research and contemporary applications that Carl Rogers’ pioneering and radical approach to education is as relevant today as it was in the 1970s and ‘80s. Brian Thorne, University of East Anglia, UK Carl Rogers is one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His influence is similarly outstanding in the fields of education, counselling, psychotherapy, conflict resolution, and peace. On Becoming an Effective Teacher presents the final unpublished writings of Rogers and as such has, not only unique historical value, but also a vital message for today’s educational crises, and can be read as a prescription against violence in our schools. It documents the research results of four highly relevant, related but independent studies which comprise the biggest collection of data ever accumulated to test a person-centred theory in the field of education. This body of comprehensive research on effective teaching was accomplished over a twenty-year period in 42 U.S. States and in six other countries including the UK, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Israel, and Mexico and is highly relevant to the concerns of teachers, psychologists, students, and parents. The principal findings of the research in this book show that teachers and schools can significantly improve their effectiveness through programs focusing on facilitative interpersonal relationships. Teachers who either naturally have, or are trained to have empathy, genuineness (congruence), and who prize their students (positive regard) create an important level of trust in the classroom and exert significant positive effects on student outcomes including achievement scores, interpersonal functioning, self-concept, attendance, and violence. The dialogues between Rogers and Lyon offer a unique and timeless perspective on teaching, counselling and learning. The work of Reinhard Tausch on person-centered teaching for counselors, parents, athletics, and even textbook materials, and the empathic interactions of teachers and students, is among the most thorough and rigorous research ever accomplished on the significance and potential of a person-centered approach to teaching and learning. This pioneering textbook is highly relevant to educational psychologists and researchers, as well as those in undergraduate and graduate university courses in education, teacher training, counseling, psychology and educational psychology.

Egan, G. The Skilled Helper: A Modelfor Systematic Helping and Interpersonal Relating. ... Egendorf, A. Healingfrom the War: Trauma and Transformation after Vietnam. ... Gendlin , Eugene T . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

I Know I'm in There Somewhere

Based on her work with over a thousand women across the country, psychologist Helene G. Brenner has learned that women feel the impulse to accommodate, adapt and mold themselves to serve others at their own expense. Her solution is an invigorating new approach to women's psychology. The key to transformation, she explains, is not self-improvement, but self-acceptance—affirming and validating what we truly feel and experience and who we already are. Dr. Brenner shows women how to discover and express what they truly want and value, guiding you toward your own Inner Voice. I Know I’m In There Somewhere will show you: - How to embrace, rather than fix, the Inner Voice that has been there all along - How to distinguish the Outer Voices (the expectations of the people around you) from Your Inner Voice (the voice of your true self that goes beyond intuition and guides you wisely towards what is right for you) - What to do when you feel that the essence of who you are is being stifled by external demands and expectations

A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner Voice and Living a Life of Authenticity Helene Brenner. Recommended Reading Ban Breathnach , Sarah . A Daybook of ... Gendlin , Eugene T . , Carl Gustav Jung . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

Transforming Fire

A guide to anger that helps readers harness the fire within themselves and in all of creation in order to move it toward life-giving ends.

Thich Nhat Hanh , Touching Peace : Practicing the Art of Mindful Living , ed . Arnold Kotler ( Berkeley , Calif . ... See Eugene T . Gendlin , Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ( Wilmette , Ill .: Chiron Publications , 1986 ) , 67 . 9."

It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent

While parents prepare for the birth of their children with trips to the doctor and birthing classes, parenthood itself requires on the job training. Here, Johnston invites parents to explore their own childhood experiences and memories in order to better understand the parenting challenges they face daily, and to accept that children raise parents as much as parents raise children. With tips, stories, and exercises, she guides parents through the various developmental stages of their children, and illustrates how we can make each moment count, one interaction at a time.

Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development Janis Clark Johnston. 8. jennifer Keeley, Case Study: ... Eugene T . Gendlin , Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams (Wilmette, IL: Chiron, 1986), 49. 17. Robert Coles, The Moral Life ..."

The Truth about Rape

If you were raped, recently or even years ago, you know that desperate feeling of wanting to get your life back together. If it feels like everything is broken and you're all alone, this book is a safe and reliable guide to recovery.

Creative Dreaming By Eugene T . Gendlin Dreamgates : An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul , Imagination , and ... By G. Constable Interpretation of Dreams , The By Jayne Gackenback , Jane Bosveld Let your Body Interpret your Dreams ..."

The Art of Dreaming

Carlos Castaneda Was One Of The Most Influential Spiritual Teachers Of The 20Th Century. In This Stunning New Jacket Edition Of His Bestselling Book, He Takes The Reader On An Amazing Journey Of The Soul Via The Teachings Of The Great Sorcerer Don Juan And Reveals That There Are Worlds Existing Within Our Own That Can Be Visited Through Dreams. The Art Of Dreaming Is An Extraordinary And Exciting Adventure Of The Psyche Unlike Any Other, Which Takes The Reader On An Amazing Journey Of The Soul Via The Teachings Of The Great Sorcerer, Don Juan. Carlos Castaneda Reveals That, Like The Layers Of An Onion, There Are Worlds Existing Within Our Own That Can Be Visited Through Dreams. Using Powerful Ancient Techniques To Alter His State Of Consciousness, Castaneda Travels Into New Worlds And Encounters Remarkable But Dangerous Beings; He Conjoins Energy Bodies With Another Dreamer In Order To Dream And Explore Together, And Thus Acquires New Knowledge And Understanding. Castaneda'S Compelling Writing Enables The Reader To Participate Fully In His Eye-Opening And Thrilling Discoveries And Explorations.

Carlos Castaneda Was One Of The Most Influential Spiritual Teachers Of The 20Th Century."

Recurring Dream Symbols

Do you ever wonder why your dreams often contain recurring symbol or themes? Have you been haunted by recurring dreams of being chased, being naked in public or having your teeth fall out? Based on her work with dreamers analyzing their own recurring dream symbols, Kathleen Sullivan explains that working recurrent dreams as a series is the key to unleashing the healing force of these symbols. Fourteen dreamers participate in the study illustrating the process of uncovering the profound meaning within each recurring symbol. These are transformational stories of dreamers engaging their own recurring symbols leading to a new wholeness and deep level of growth and understanding. +

Maps to Healing Your Past Kathleen Sullivan. Corriere , Richard , and Joseph Hart . The Dream Makers . New York : Funk and Wagnalls , 1977 . Delaney , Gayle . ... Gendlin , Eugene T . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

The Body Eclectic

A discussion of current practices in modern dance training

For a full listing of Dr. Fortin's writings, please contact Département de Danse (Department of Dance), University of ... Gendlin , Eugene T . 1982. Focusing. 2nd ed. New York: Bantam Books. ———. 1986. Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."

Women's Intuition

A psychoneuroimmunologist explores “how intuition works; and how people can use it to be in tune with their bodies, reduce stress, and promote health” (Booklist). Women’s intuition is real, says Paula Reeves. Encoded in a woman’s DNA, this subtle yet potent source of knowledge has been doubted and dismissed as an old wives’ tale. Because social conditioning and male-dominated culture have caused women to feel disconnected from their own bodies, Dr. Reeves believes that most women are unaware of what their intuition is trying to tell them. In Women’s Intuition, Dr. Reeves guides readers to remove the blocks preventing this channel of knowledge from informing and enriching their daily lives. By evoking body-based intuition, readers can reestablish their body-mind bond and access their intuitive power for healing and insight. “Reeves describes numerous real-life therapy sessions and exercises involving SCM [Spontaneous Contemplative Movement], providing us with clear illustrations of how to connect with our bodies and emotions and hence achieve a deeper understanding of the self. She helps us through the difficult task of both rediscovering the intuitive parts of ourselves we have lost and trusting our intuitions to guide us through life. This challenging book will no doubt profoundly change some readers’ lives.” —Library Journal “A gift to any woman who is determined to connect with her own feminine body.” —Marion Woodman, author of Bone: Dying into Life “This gracious book is for all who suspect that the body knows things we do not know. We’ve yearned to free the wisdom locked in the body’s images, symptoms, and movements; Reeves gives us a burnished key.” —Jill Mellick, PhD, author of The Art of Dreaming

Unlocking the Wisdom of the Body Paula M. Reeves. Gendlin , Eugene T . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams . Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 1986. Gleck, James. Chaos. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Gordon, David. Therapeutic Metaphors."

Mindful Therapy

Welcome and much-needed addition to the literature for psychotherapists, therapists-in-training, and occupational therapists and other types of teachers. Mindful Therapy offers to them ways to bring the teachings of Buddhism into a psychotherapeutic practice - and a thorough explanation of the benefits of doing so. The book will be of value to therapists of every variety, in the way that Medicine and Compassion, while molded for caregivers in general, was applauded by medical journals. Author Tom Bien offers an energizing an expansive perspective. Grounded in his understanding of Buddhist teachings, his book suggests a model of integration of particular value to beginning therapists or those still in training, offering ways in which the therapist can mindfully care for themselves amid the challenges of their practice. Tools useful to clients, as well, are discussed. Bien sees therapists as practicing in the ancient traditions of various healers of spirit, whose greatest skill and gift to others is, above all, the mindful presence. Mindful Therapy is comprised of a useful, highly-readable balance of theoretical groundwork, personal experience, case studies, and practice exercises.

 Kornfield , jack . Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters. Boston: Shambhala, 1996. ———. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path . New York: Bantam, 2000. Kornfield , jack , and Paul ..."

Transactional Analysis Journal

The final chapter , " Epilogue : A Major Source of Anger - the Dilemma of Good and Evil , " is an eloquent philosophical statement about the nature of the world , of people , of ... Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams Eugene T . Gendlin ..."

Language Beyond Postmodernism

Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays edited by David Michael Levin. This compilation of critical studies—each followed by a comment from Gendlin himself—investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and explores relations between Gendlin's philosophy of language and experience and the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Dilthey, and Heidegger.

I said at the outset that Gendlin's views help us to understand why ordinary scientific articles fail to generate hermeneutic ... which Gendlin , as he describes the process in Focusing and Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams , 18 is ..."

American Phenomenology

THEODORE KISIEL Date of birth: October 30,1930. Place of birth: Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Date of institution of highest degree: PhD. , Duquesne University, 1962. Academic appointments: University of Dayton; Canisius College; Northwestern University; Duquesne University; Northern Illinois University. I first left the university to pursue a career in metallurgical research and nuclear technology. But I soon found myself drawn back to the uni versity to 'round out' an overly specialized education. It was along this path that I was 'waylaid' into philosophy by teachers like H. L. Van Breda and Bernard Boelen. The philosophy department at Duquesne University was then (1958-1962) a veritable "little Louvain," and the Belgian-Dutch connection exposed me to (among other visiting scholars) Jean Ladriere and Joe Kockelmans, who planted the seeds which eventually led me to the hybrid discipline of a hermeneutics of natural science, and prompted me soon after graduation to make the first of numerous extended visits to Belgium and Germany. The endeavor to learn French and German led me to the task of translating the phenomenological literature bearing especially on natural science and on Heidegger. The talk in the sixties was of a "continental divide" in philosophy between Europe and the Anglo-American world. But in designing my courses in the philosophy of science, I naturally gravitated to the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Polanyi and Toulmin without at first fully realizing why I felt such a strong kinship with them, beyond their common anti positivism.

Doesn' t therapy - experience come from the therapist's theory ? No , not at all ! ... Focusing ( 1981 ) and Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ( 1986 ) do that . ... For a while such " successes " made me run EUGENE T . GENDLIN 407."

West Coast Review of Books

... gourmet treats out of the melting pot metropolis and from Puerto Rico comes Puerto Rican Cookery by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli ( Pelican ; $ 13.95 ) , which is really comprehensive , even down to a whole chapter on coconut desserts !"

Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model

In sharp contrast with the current top-down medicalized method to treating addiction, this book presents the felt sense polyvagal model (FSPM), a paradigm-shifting, bottom-up approach that considers addiction as an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states and trauma. The felt sense polyvagal model draws from Porges' polyvagal theory, Gendelin's felt sense, and Lewis' learning model of addiction to offer a graphically illustrated and deeply embodied way of conceptualizing and treating addiction through supporting autonomic regulation. This model de-pathologizes addiction as it teaches embodied practices through tapping into the felt sense, the body’s inner wisdom. Chapters first present a theoretical framework and demonstrate the graphic model in both clinician and client versions and then teach the clinician how to use the model in practice by providing detailed treatment strategies. This text’s informed, compassionate approach to understanding and treating trauma and addiction is adaptable to any school of psychotherapy and will appeal to addiction experts, trauma specialists, and clinicians in all mental health fields.

Either way it results in a blocked process and the neurophysiological shift that happens in the body with the addictive shift has no meaning , it doesn' t carry forward with health, growth, or restoration. Instead, it propels back and ..."

Quadrant

She is a member of the New York and International Associations of Analytical Psychology . LET YOUR BODY INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS By Eugene T . Gendlin . Wilmette , IL : Chiron Publications , 1986. 192 pp . $ 12.00 REVIEWED BY ANITA GREENE ..."

Voices

Ki C Mary Your Bor FCB the fe W BOOK REVIEWS Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams by Eugene T . Gendlin . Wilmette , IL : Chiron Press , 1986. Pp . 195. $ 9.95 . This is an amazing and courageous book - filled with gentle encouragement to ..."

The Body in Analysis

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Murray Stein, Joan Chodorow, Mario Jacoby, and several other Jungian analysts review the role of the body in psychoanalysis. Contents: Donald F. Sandner - The Subjective Body in Clinical Practice Nathan Schwartz-Salant - On the Subtle-Body Concept in Clinical Practice Sylvia Brinton Perera - Ceremonies of the Emerging Ego in Psychotherapy Joan Chodorow - The Body as Symbol: Dance/Movement in Analysis Mario Jacoby - Getting in Touch and Touching in Analysis Judith Hubback - Body Language and the Self: The Search for Psychic Truth John A. B. Allan - The Body in Child Psychotherapy Ronald Schenk - Bare Bones: The Aesthetics of Arthritis Louis H. Stewart - Affect and Archetype: A Contribution to a Comprehensive Theory of the Structure of the Psyche

Ceremonies of the Emerging Ego in Psychotherapy Sylvia Brinton Perera p . ... ( Analysand ) a Sylvia Brinton Perera , M.A. , is on the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and has a private practice in New ..."

The Dream

Child's oriental folktale about a baku ( a dream eater ) , who delights in devouring bad dreams , and loves most of all the frightful nightmare . Comforting for the young child . Gendlin ( Eugene T . ) . Let Your Body Interpret Your ..."

Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry

In : Transforming the Hermeneutic Context : From Nietzsche to Nancy . ... Frankl , Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning : An Introduction to Logotherapy . ... Gendlin , Eugene T . Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams ."