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Understanding Ourselves Through Dreamwork: Women Finding Significance in the Stories and Images of Dreams

Finocan, Gillian M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122927116

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2005, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
This study seeks to understand how women make use of different popular dreamwork methods (a self-help dream book and an Ullman dream appreciation group) to shape their understanding of dreams in relation to their identities and to find significance in the stories and images of their dreams. A feminist qualitative method of interviewing and analysis is utilized to make sense of each woman's dreamwork experiences. Three dreamwork stories are presented with a specific focus on how each woman wrestled with the decision to share her dreams and on how she worked to incorporate the understanding she gained into the context of her life. Each story shows the struggles and tensions that emerged during the dreamwork process and how each woman actively made meaning out of the dreams she worked with rather than passively received an interpretation or agenda from the dreamwork methods.
Roger Knudson (Advisor)
58 p.
Psychology, Clinical
Self-Help Dreamwork; Dreams; Performance-texts; Qualitative Research

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  • Finocan, G. M. (2005). Understanding Ourselves Through Dreamwork: Women Finding Significance in the Stories and Images of Dreams [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122927116

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Finocan, Gillian. Understanding Ourselves Through Dreamwork: Women Finding Significance in the Stories and Images of Dreams. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122927116.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Finocan, Gillian. "Understanding Ourselves Through Dreamwork: Women Finding Significance in the Stories and Images of Dreams." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122927116

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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