Dreams In Jungian Psychology: The use of Dreams as an Instrument For Research Diagnosis and Treatment of Social Phobia

摘要

Background:The significance of dreams has been explained in psychoanalysis, depth psychology and gestalt therapy. There are many guidelines in analytic psychology for dream interpretation and integration in clinical practice. The present study, based on the Jungian analytic model, incorporated dreams as an instrument for assessment of aetiology, the psychotherapy process and the outcome of treatment for social phobia within a clinical case study.