Hi Jeremy, and all,
I would suggest this [below (3) ] be either re-worded or placed under the
criteria for adequate compliance of history-of-dreamwork:
AS Stated:
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"(3) Any program training people to work with dreams should have a
fundamental component addressing the universal human process of unconscious
"projection". This tranining component should include material relating to
projection both as a major element in the creation of the manifest content of
the dream itself, as well as a primary factor in the subsequent exploration
and work with any dream or dream series."
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Is this a major principle or a specialized sub-principle? It seems to
me that when we unfold our expectations of what will constitute adequate
coverage under the "History of Dreamwork", that this could go there quite
well.
As a major principle this imports the language and culture of 19th - 20th
Century psychotherapy and turns a technical psychological term into
something else that is not clear to me in this context. Although
projection is a general English word and has become popular to use in some
circles, I feel the way its being used here with unconscious is confusing.
I would also drop the word "unconscious".
An acceptable alternative is to develop dreamwork jargon, and define the
terms within this context.
I feel this project has in it a positive push towards building a standard
that ~could~ be used and applied by *any* program wishing to have dreamwork
training program that is sophisticated, ethical and ecclectic. There are
psychotherapies now that find the word "unconscious" problematic and have
dropped it as well.
++ Richard
"If this were my dream education program...."
