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Spiritual and Nonspiritual Approaches to Dream Work: Effects on Clients' Well‐Being
Author(s) -
Davis Timothy L.,
Hill Clara E.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2005.tb00371.x
Subject(s) - dream , spirituality , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , existentialism , psychotherapist , volunteer , social psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , medicine , alternative medicine , philosophy , linguistics , pathology , agronomy , biology
Fifty‐one spiritually oriented volunteer clients completed 2 sessions of waking life dream interpretation or 2 sessions of spiritual dream interpretation. Volunteer clients in both conditions increased in insight into their dreams and rated sessions favorably, but volunteer clients in the spiritual condition experienced greater increases in spiritual insight into their dreams and experienced greater increases in existential well‐being. The results suggest the benefits of incorporating spirituality into dream interpretation for spiritually oriented clients.