The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of using a Daseinsanalytic approach to dream explication in order to reveal the essential meaningfulness of behaviourial possibilities for the patient. After discussing the Daseinsanalytic view on dream explication, emphasizing Medard Boss's approach as the major exponent of this view, the study explores the usefulness and validity of the study as a method of investigating the dreams from this perspective. The dreams related in this study are examined individually, giving a phenomenological understanding of each and also providing a possible prospective focus for therapy. It will be shown that the phenomenological understanding of the patient's dreams corresponds with his subjective experience of his emotional existential situation and that any positive changes in the content of the dreams over time corresponds with observable and related changes in his behaviour, ideation and mood. However, if the suggested prospective focus of Medard Boss had been more usefully employed when each dream was explicated in the therapy sessions, it is felt that the progress of therapy would have been greatly enhanced. This study therefore concludes that the use of Medard Boss's approach to dream explication has not only a hermeneutic value in the process of therapy, but also aids the dreamer in becoming aware of the possible modes of behaviour yet unrevealed in his waking life.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the hermeneutic value of the Daseinsanalytic approach to dream interpretation in the process of psychotherapy. After delineating the Daseinsanalytic view on dream interpretation, with emphasis on the conceptualization of Medard Boss, the study explores the usefulness and validity of the case study as a method of investigating the content and process of psychotherapy. A psychodynamic formulation of the presenting problem is based on the conceptualization of the nature and etiology of neurosis as delineated by Andras Angyal, with particular reference to the pattern of noncommitment. The dreams included in the case material are then examined to determine to what degree they facilitated insight into the subjective experience and phenomenological existence of the dreamer, and what effect the dream interpretation based on the Daseinsanalytic approach had on the process of therapy. It is established that a phenomenological understanding of the client's dreams corresponds with his subjective experience of his emotional and existential condition, and that positive changes in the content of the dreams during the course of therapy correspond with overt, observable changes in his behaviour, ideation and mood. Based on these findings, the case study leads to the conclusion that the Daseinsanalytic approach to dream interpretation has hermeneutic value in the process of psychotherapy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carla Regina Calderoni.pdf: 710664 bytes, checksum: cf2687eb91f09611c3a8c25c9f0ad024 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-21 / This study aimed at identifying compatibilities between Jacob Levy Moreno s psychodrama and Medard Boss s Daseinsanalysis in psychotherapeutic practice. Both approaches rose from the same historical context, with common origins in the vein of philosophical existential phenomenology. Moreno s professional trajectory was presented, referencing his four creative moments and the concepts and psychotherapeutic practices that arose in each of these moments. Daseinsanalysis s founding principles and its method of psychotherapeutic treatment, which was proposed by Boss drawing from Heideggerian ontology, are reviewed. Fundamental similarities in their psychotherapeutic practice were found in Moreno s Psychodrama and Boss s Daseinsanalysis, which are then shown through examples of Moreno s and Boss conduction of clinical cases. The compatibilities were verified in both authors practices. Without damaging psychodramatic methodology, Moreno acts as a daseinsanalyst when welcomes patients as they are, offering the possibility to understand and transform their being-in-the-world. In the same way, maintaining loyalty to the daseinanalytical method, Boss acts as a psycho dramatist when he enables his patient to experience his childlike state in a spontaneously creative way, offering a shelter for her to re-live principal moments of his childhood. From those identified compatibilities, it is contended that psychotherapists and adherents to psychotherapy can benefit from the integration of the two approaches, since they coexist without opposition. A psychodramatist can, thanks to his psychotherapeutic practices, exercise Bossian Daseinanalysis and daseinanalysts can, in their psychotherapeutic practices, exercise Morenian psychodrama / O presente estudo tem como objetivo apresentar compatibilidades entre o Psicodrama de Jacob Levy Moreno e a Daseinsanalyse de Medard Boss na Prática Psicoterapêutica. Partiu-se da contextualização histórica do momento no qual surgiram ambas as abordagens, verificando suas origens comuns na corrente filosófica fenomenológica existencial. Foi apresentada a trajetória profissional de Moreno, tendo como referência seus quatro momentos criativos , e os conceitos e práticas psicoterapêuticas que surgiram em cada um desses momentos. Em seguida foram apresentados os principais fundamentos e o método de tratamento psicoterápico da Daseinsanalyse, tal como proposta por Boss, a partir da ontologia heideggeriana. Conclui-se apontando semelhanças fundamentais na prática psicoterapêutica do Psicodrama de Moreno e da Daseinsanalyse de Boss, que são então exemplificadas com um protocolo de Moreno e um caso clínico atendido por Boss. São verificadas compatibilidades entre os atendimentos de ambos os autores. Sem ferir a metodologia psicodramática, Moreno mostra-se daseinsanalista quando acolhe seu paciente tal como este se apresenta, oferecendo-lhe a possibilidade de compreender e transformar seu ser-no-mundo. Da mesma maneira, sendo fiel ao método daseinsanalítico, Boss mostra-se psicodramatista quando possibilita à sua paciente experienciar seu ser infantil de maneira espontânea criadora, oferecendo-lhe continente para reviver momentos primordiais de sua infância. A partir das compatibilidades identificadas defende-se que tanto psicoterapeutas quanto usuários de psicoterapia podem beneficiar-se da integração entre as duas abordagens, uma vez que estas coexistem sem oposição. Um psicodramatista pode, a partir de sua prática psicoterapêutica exercer a análise do dasein bossiana e daseinsanalistas podem, em suas práticas psicoterapêuticas exercer psicodrama moreniano