This Question came from a woman named Beatrice who was concerned that her dreams were ordinary. She said that she dreamt about friends, people she knew and places she had visited. She also expressed her belief that there should not be a template in regards to the various themes in dreams. Here is my…
Continue ReadingI am responding to a request to analyze a dream in which a woman was visited by her deceased father. This type of dream is archetypal and wrought with symbolic meaning. When a person who has passed on visits us in our dreams – we are accessing the collective unconscious. This is the resting place…
Continue ReadingDr. Carder Stout came late to the world of psychotherapy: After working for Warner Brothers and then branching out to do his own thing in the film industry, he went back to school for his Masters in Psychology in 2004. One of the lovely things about Carder’s approach is that his goal with all patients…
Continue ReadingPeople refer to frightening dreams as nightmares. These type of unsettling dreams have a category all by themselves. These are the dreams that wake us up in a cold sweet and jolt us out of a deep sleep. Sometimes we scream as we are being chased and often we feel that there is no escape….
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