| Abstract: | American psychiatrist Montague Ullman viewed dreams as spontaneous creative expressions of one's current life situation and developed a method of working with them the outcome of which he felt to be superior to interpretation. He called this outcome dream appreciation. It (a) was arrived at by the dreamer, not some professional; (b) didn't attempt to understand the dream in terms of any established body of theory, but tried to make sense of it in terms of the dreamer's life; and (c) reunited the dreamer with what was felt to be deepest and most true in herself and brought this out into her life. Examples exist in the literature of the first two aspects. Although the third aspect characterizes every well-run Ullman group, the literature contains not a single convincing example of it. This article provides one. |
