Gary Massey – The Clinician’s Guide to Dreams, Traumatic Memories, Hallucinations, and Intrusive Images: Making Sense of the Unconscious

Outline

DREAMS, TRAUMATIC MEMORY, DISTURBING IMAGES & BRAIN FUNCTIONING

• Stages of sleep, brainwaves, and sleep-wake cycle
• Basic neurobiology and brain functioning during dreaming, traumatic memory, and waking imagery with updated research findings
• Psychological models of the human conscious, pre-conscious, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious
• Gender and cultural/ethnic influences and considerations

RISK ASSESSMENT

• Guidelines, formats, and methods at critical junctures of treatment and beyond
• Determining and identifying precursors, stressors, cues, and triggers

THEORIES & INTERVENTION APPROACHES

• Dream, traumatic memory, hallucinations, and intrusive image dynamics
• Freudian, Adlerian, Ericksonian, Jungian, Redecision/TA/Gestalt, Senoi and Creative Problem-Solving theories and approaches
• Intervention and modification guidelines, methods, and techniques
• Indicators of improvement, health, wellness, compensation, decompensation, illness, change, resolution, and realignment
• Application to individual and group psychotherapy

EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT METHODS & INTERVENTIONS

TREATMENT & WELLNESS RECOVERY PLANS

• Addressing sleep disturbance and disorders
• Collaborative development and implementation
• Precursors and triggers
• Cues and warning signs
• Practical coping skills
• Patient-family education
• Necessary support person(s) involvement/debriefing
• Social resource enhancement

ETHICAL DILEMMAS

• Practical contextual guidelines
• Ethical challenges

Group case studies exploring pivotal treatment junctures, risk indicators, intervention options, recommendations, and follow-up