The Fern Monster: A One-Session Cure with Dreamwork

Abstract

This article describes a single session of dreamwork with a 13-year-old boy using transactional analysis and some Jungian theory along with action methods. The client presented a dream that had frightened him, worked for an hour to make sense of it, left with insight into an inner conflict, and changed his behavior accordingly.

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Margaret M. Bowater

Margaret Bowater, M.A., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, is a psychotherapist living in Auckland, New Zealand, and a founding co-director of the Human Development and Training Institute of New Zealand, for which she tutors in transactional analysis, dreamwork, counseling, and spirituality. She is the author of a book on dreams and visions and tutors a 100-hour certificate in dreamwork practice.