The Way of the Dream

This half-day workshop will explore from a Jungian perspective how dreams can be interpreted and worked with in clinical practice. The book The Way of the Dream by Jungian analyst Fraser Boa1 will be referenced.

 Boa’s book is based on a series of films he made of interviews with men and women in the street in various parts of the world as they relate their first-hand accounts of their dreams; and the subsequent interpretation of these dreams as if in clinical analysis, by Marie-Louise von Franz an eminent Jungian analyst. The material covered in the book includes the historical significance of dreams and what we can learn from dreams about our individual psychology, relationships, death and dying. 

When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists, for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes-their ability to offer new points of view. CG Jung2

‘The Way of the Dream’ workshop will be conducted by Ken Milling. A practising analytic psychotherapist, supervisor, and stage II ANZSJA candidate training as a Jungian psychoanalyst.

 1F Boa. (1994). The Way of the Dream, Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with Marie-Louise Von Franz. Boston;Shambhala.

 ²CG Jung. (1971). In J Jacobi (Ed) Psychological Reflections: An Anthology of Jung’s Writings 1905-1961; Routledge:p 75.

For further information contact ken kennethmilling(at)iinet.net.au