This project attempts to articulate an understanding of the worlds of selected subjects suffering from schizophrenia, through their dreams. It proceeds from the implicit question of whether or not schizophrenic dreams reflect the schizophrenic worlds as literature defines, and tries to address some of the dream features which reflect the schizophrenic world. Five psychiatric inpatients suffering from schizophrenia were selected. The data gathered included the subjects' dreams and subsequent interviews for the purpose of clarification of the dreams. A phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology was deemed to be appropriate as it gave access to the richness of the dream experiences as well as the following dialogue between the data and literature. The results indicate that the subjects' dream worlds bear evidence to a fragmented state of ego which is to be expected to be found in schizophrenia. On the other hand some of these subjects' dreams also point to evolving health that is present in their world, at least on an intrapsychic level.

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.

Psychologists investigating dreams in non-Western cultures have generally not considered the meanings of dreams within the unique meaning-structure of the person in his or her societal context. The majority of dream studies in African societies are no exception. Researchers approaching dreams within rural Xhosa and Zulu speaking societies have either adopted an anthropological or a psychodynamic orientation. The latter approach particularly imposes a Western perspective in the interpretation of dream material. There have been no comparable studies of dream interpretation among urban blacks participating in the African Independent Church Movement. The present study focuses on the rural Xhosa speaking people and the urban black population who speak one of the Nguni languages and identify with the African Independent Church Movement. The study is concerned with understanding the meanings of dreams within the cultural context in which they occur. The specific aims of the study are: 1. To explicate the indigenous system of dream interpretation as revealed by acknowledged dream experts. 2. To examine the commonalities and the differences between the interpretation of dreams in two groups, drawn from a rural and urban setting respectively. 3. To elaborate upon the life-world of the participants by the interpretations gained from the above investigation. One hundred dreams and interpretations are collected from two categories of participants referred to as the Rural Group and the Urban Group. The Rural Group is made up of amagqira [traditional healers] and their clients, while the Urban Group consists of prophets and members of the African Independent Churches. Each group includes acknowledged dream experts. A phenomenological methodology is adopted in explicating the data. The methodological precedure involves a number of rigorous stages of explication whereby the original data is reduced to Constituent Profiles leading to the construction of a Thematic Index File. By searching and reflecting upon the data, interpretative themes are identified. These themes are explicated to provide a rigorous description of the interpretative-reality of each group. Themes explicated within the Rural Group are: the physiognomy of the dreamer's life- world as revealed by ithongo, the interpretation of ithongo as revealed through action, the dream relationship as an anticipatory mode-of-existence, iphupha as disclosing a vulnerable mode-of-being, human bodiliness as revealed in dream interpretations and the legitimation of the interpretative-reality within the life-world. Themes explicated within the Urban Group are : the physiognomy of the dreamer's life-world revealed in their dream-existence, the interpretative-reality revealed through the enaction of dreams, tension between the newer Christian-based cosomology and the traditional cultural-based cosmology, a moral imperative, prophetic perception and human bodiliness, as revealed in dream interpretations and the legitimation of the interpretative-reality within the life-world. The essence of the interpretative-reality of both groups is very similar and is expressed in the notion of relatedness to a cosmic mode-of-being. The cosmic mode-of-being includes a numinous dimension which is expressed through divine presence in the form of ancestors, Holy Spirit or God. These notions cannot be apprehended by theoretical constructs alone but may be grasped and given form in meaning-disclosing intuitions which are expressed in the lifeworld in terms of bodiliness, revelatory knowledge, action and healing. Some differences between the two groups are evident and reveal some conflict between the monotheistic Christian cosmology and the traditional cosmology. Unique aspects of the interpetative-reality of the Urban Group are expressed in terms of difficulties in the urban social environment and the notion of a moral imperative. It is observed that cultural self-expression based upon traditional ideas continues to play a significant role in the urban environment. The apparent conflict revealed between the respective cosmologies underlies an integration of traditional meanings with Christian concepts. This finding is consistent with the literature suggesting that the African Independent Church is a syncretic movement. The life-world is based upon the immediate and vivid experience of the numinous as revealed in the dream phenomenon. The participants' approach to dreams is not based upon an explicit theory, but upon an immediate and pathic understanding of the dream phenomenon. The understanding is based upon the interpreter's concrete understanding of the life-world, which includes the possibility of cosmic integration and continuity between the personal and transpersonal realms of being. The approach is characterized as an expression of man's primordial attunement with the cosmos. The approach of the participants to dreams may not be consistent with a Western rational orientation, but nevertheless, it is a valid approach. The validity is based upon the immediate life-world of experience which is intelligible, coherent, and above all, it is meaning-giving in revealing life-possibility within the context of human existence.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-09T11:20:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Regina Cocco.pdf: 1215953 bytes, checksum: ac779c201f3b4866da2dd1f1b2f125ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-09T11:20:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Regina Cocco.pdf: 1215953 bytes, checksum: ac779c201f3b4866da2dd1f1b2f125ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-25 / The presente research aimed to design a clipping of the Winnicottian contribution to the analytical use of the dream, along the initial stages of emotional development prior to the repressed unconscious. As specific objectives, it was studied: a) the dream as an experience of integration, constitution and communication of the individual with himself and with the other; b) the provision of this experience within the context of the analytical setting; and c) the analytical use of the dream inscribed in the process of maturation. In the methodology, it was used: 1) the bibliographical research to: a) contextualize the Winnicottian contribution on the analytical use of the dream in the psychoanalytic literature; b) revisit the Winnicottian theoretical foundation; and c) to select Winnicottian texts whose clinical accounts illustrate the use of the dream and allow a recognition of subsidies to the analytical clinic; 2) research-listening and research-investigative in the clinical fragments of a psychoanalytic case, with which reflected on the analytical use of the dream with the borderline patient. The project was based on the Winnicottian theoretical / clinical conception to support the proposal that, in the initial phases of maturation process, the dream and the experiences of to play have their roots in the imaginative elaboration of body functioning and are fundamentally in the integration and in story of the self and, besides the cultural experiences, open a space of intertwining and enrichment of the human being's life / A presente pesquisa buscou realizar o delineamento de um recorte da contribuição winnicottiana ao uso analítico do sonho junto às fases iniciais do desenvolvimento emocional anteriores ao inconsciente reprimido. Como objetivos específicos, estudou: a) o sonho enquanto uma experiência de integração, constituição e de comunicação do indivíduo consigo mesmo e com o outro; b) a provisão dessa experiência dentro do contexto do setting analítico e c) o uso analítico do sonho inscrito no processo do amadurecimento. Na metodologia, utilizou: 1) a pesquisa bibliográfica para: a) contextualizar a contribuição winnicottiana sobre o uso analítico do sonho na literatura psicanalítica; b) revisitar a fundamentação teórica winnicottiana; e c) selecionar textos winnicottianos cujos relatos clínicos ilustram o uso do sonho e permitem um reconhecimento de subsídios à clínica analítica; 2) a pesquisa-escuta e a investigativa nos fragmentos clínicos de um atendimento psicanalítico, com os quais refletiu sobre o uso analítico do sonho junto ao paciente borderline. O projeto apoiou-se na concepção teórica/clínica winnicottiana para fundamentar a proposta de que, nas fases iniciais do amadurecimento, o sonho e as experiências do brincar têm suas raízes na elaboração imaginativa das funções corporais e encontram-se fundamentalmente na integração e historiação do si-mesmo e, juntamente com as experiências culturais, abrem um espaço de entrelaçamento e enriquecimento do viver do ser humano

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