Dreams as narratives in psychotherapeutic practice

The seminar is conducted by psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor, Gestalt practitioner Arseniy Tarabanov, a member of the Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA) and the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA).

Dreams as narratives in psychotherapeutic practice,
We invite you to an online seminar on psychodynamic psychotherapy:
„Dreams as narratives in psychotherapeutic practice”.

The seminar is conducted by psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor, Gestalt practitioner Arseniy Tarabanov, a member of the Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA) and the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA).

This seminar is the first of six within the program „Dreams in psychodynamic psychotherapy”. Upon completion of the program, a certificate of the established form is issued.

Dream interpretation is an important part of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Patients who recollect their experiences during sleep often seek to share them with their therapist. In the webinar, we will discuss:

1. How the consciousness of the dreamer differs from daytime consciousness. Let’s compare the narratives of the sleeping and waking Ego.

2. We will consider the visual language of dreams and how to make our dream experience accessible to our waking consciousness. How this visual language should be “translated” using verbal means based on metaphor.

3. We will compare dreams and dissociative states.

4. We will consider how the patient’s “observing” and “dreaming” Egos interact in the process of psychotherapy.

5. We will discuss how autobiographical memory functions in patients’ stories about dreams.

Date: June 28, 2025, 11:00 (Vilnius time)
Duration: 2 hours.
Cost: 40 euros.
Language: Russian

Registration at: https://forms.gle/pDmHHmqnv9N7PS5R8

Why does a practicing psychologist/psychotherapist need this knowledge? Working with patients/clients’ dreams is an important part of psychotherapeutic practice. It is often a key element of successful psychotherapy. Working with dreams allows:

1. Helps the therapist to more accurately determine the patient/client’s request for therapy and their key problems,

2. Form long-term and trusting relationships between the therapist and the patient (therapeutic alliance),

3. Expand the range of methods used by the therapist,

4. Detect possible psychopathological manifestations of the patient/client without resorting to additional research and diagnostics,

5. Gain access to the early traumatic experience of the patient/client in the least traumatic way.

6. Learn more about the „world of dreams”, including your own,

7. Obtain systematized knowledge about the neurophysiological nature of the sleep process and the formation of dreams.