Group Dream Work Incorporating a Psychophysical Embodied Approach

摘要

This article presents an initial account of a 6-month process with a group of undergraduate students, in an educational environment, which explored the possibilities of archetypal group dream work and the incorporation of embodied activities to explore dream imagery. This work incorporated activities based in psychophysical actor training and aligns itself to an archetypal post-Jungian perspective for dream work. We suggest here that the model developed for this inquiry appears to have positive effects for the dreamer and for other participants. The main benefit of the practice is its capacity to evade ego's defenses and generate psychic movement in the dreamer. This model for group dream work still needs to be tested in a clinical environment, which is the recommendation for further research.