Problems And Action Ideas Discussed By Clients During Dreams Sessions

Since Freud’s masterpiece on oneiromancy ’The Interpretation of Dreams’ was published in1990, the curtain had risen on the study of dreams. In recent decades, with psychotherapy theories being integrated and booming, more and more theory schools are throwing themselves to work on dreams, especially on the cognition of Hill’s cognitive-experiential dream model. This kind of dream model is easy to operate, and rich clinic experiences have been accumulated with Hill and its team working on dreamers. This essay is about to apply Hill dream model into psychological consulting and using Consensual Qualitative Research(CQR) to analyze the problems occurred in dream talk and types of action ideas. The researcher has performed dream talk on15dreamers, and the study shows:(1) After the dream session with dreamers, we found the issues of reported problems can be concluded into seven aspects:87%of clients reported interpersonal issues (maladaptive interpersonal patterns, family issues, romantic relationship issues, issues with peers/friends),40%of clients showed academic issues,27%of clients reported career issues and adaption issues,33.3%of clients showed sleeping issues and emotion issues,53.3%of clients reported other issues.(2) Action ideas reported during the dream session can be concluded into two aspects:93.3%of clients chose behavior change(change oneself, change others) and80%of chients chose cognitive change.