Abstract

SANTANA, Djeane da Silva  and  YANO, Luciane Patrícia. Experiments in gestalt therapy: the dreams as an integrative resource . Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.2, pp. 91-101. ISSN 2175-2591.

The dreams consist in a potential source for self-knowledge and, therefore, follow over time as an important resource to psychotherapy. The aim of this paper is to understand: first, how Gestalt Therapy (GT) through experiments, develops the meaning of dream experiences in the therapeutic setting and, second, how the therapeutical works with dreams enhances the integration of the person. The methodology was based on bibliographic exploration, mainly within the limits of the Gestalt approach and resulted in the realization that the use of dreams as instrumental resource in experiments in GT, are an important way for the integration of the person. It is suggested that development work on the instrument dreams in Gestalt approach with clinical case of structuring, in order to correlate the clinical practice into this discussion.

Keywords : Gestalt-therapy; Experiments; Dreams; Integration.

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