This is a podcast interview with Allan Frater, UKCP accredited psychotherapist and teacher at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London, in which we discuss waking dreams, imagination (tame and wild), and an image centric way of working in psychotherapy. Allan’s new book Waking Dreams – Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life is published by Transpersonal Press and can be purchased on Amazon.
Click on the embedded link below to watch the interview.
In the interview we discuss the meaning of imagination, what is going on when we imagine, how we can imagine more fully, and actually why would we would want to. So often in conventional dream analysis images are treated as of secondary importance. What often happens is the therapist will focus upon the feeling and thought responses rather than working directly with the images themselves. This is often accompanied with questions such “how does it make you feel?” or “how do you understand it?” which can result in imagining being eclipsed by thinking and feeling. In this interview and more fully in his book Allan explains how feelings, thoughts, and body sensations can all be included within therapeutic work that maintains its primary focus upon images and imagining.
Noel Bell is a UKCP accredited psychotherapist based in London and can be contacted on 07852407140 and noel@noelbell.net
