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| ?Dreams have always served as wonderful texts for all kinds of reasons. Freud viewed the dream as a disguised representation of repressed ideas that had been evoked by the events of the dreamer?s day, and this view allowed him to break up the image of the dream through a process of free association that revealed a quite extraordinary simultaneity of many thoughts moving along an infinite psychic chain. Gordon Lawrence uses the dream as a pretext for a group?s analysis of social issues, thereby allowing any group to share the dream as a sample of social life, of a society dreaming its own issues. Lawrence?s perspective is a wonderful invention and sure to last Dr. Christopher Bollas,Psychoanalyst and author |
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| ?Social Dreaming constitutes a remarkable innovation by transforming the hidden world of dreams into social data available for pattern recognition and social information. It is like taking a temperature reading of our social temperament at any given time and offers the opportunity to examine, in real time, the comparative environments across the globe. If the world is a global village, Social Dreaming is a means to understand its current emotional state.? Dr. Irving Borwick,Organizational Consultant, New York and Brussels |
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| ?Participating in a Social Dreaming Matrix is an excellent way to learn first-hand about the group unconscious and its reflection in dreams.? Mark Blechner,In Neri, C, M. Pines and R. Friedman Eds. Dreams in Group Psychotherapy. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd. |
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| ?The opportunity to tell and listen and associate to dreams, without moving to interpretation, allowed us ?to see into each other and into ourselves in compelling and evocative ways?For those interested in dreams, for those interested in the sharing of dreams, for those interested in the social dimensions within our most private nightly excursions, for those interested in an experience of social engagement that is filled with the inspirations of surprises, humour, playfulness, creativity, deep feeling and meaningfulness found within dreams?? Paul Lippmann,author of Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams (Analytic Press, 2000.) |
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