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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012, 8:30-10:30PM
Chelsea Studios,
151 West 26th Street, #506

      Dreams, Lucid Dreaming, and Gestalt Therapy:

Can Lucid Dreaming be a Technique in Gestalt Therapy?

Presenter:  Brigitte Holzinger, Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research, Vienna (office@traum.ac.at)

Lucid Dreaming is a phenomenon of consciousness during sleep – during dreaming. Definitions vary among researchers. In short, in a lucid dream the dreamer is aware of the dream state while dreaming and is aware of the capacity for decision-making while dreaming.  Lucid dreamers range from people interested in esoteric topics and spirituality to computers, the arts and many others. Lucid dreams are a virtual reality within.

In my presentation I will introduce Paul Tholey’s definition of what he called Klartraum, the German term for lucid dreaming. He was the Klartraumpioneer in the German-speaking countries and an outstanding Gestalt Theorist who claimed that one night he asked himself “what is real?” and found himself within a dream being aware of the dream state while still chasing after epistemological answers. This to him became his first Klartraum experience.

I will also give an overview of the history and psychophysiological research on lucid dreaming, and report our experiences trying to evaluate its’ therapeutic potential by introducing lucid dreaming to nightmare sufferers.

We will then have time for discussion about whether lucid dreaming could fit Gestalt therapy thinking.  Might it be an “associative state” as belonging to the realm of dissociative states or is it an anarchical self- actualizing process?

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Save the date: 
Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy Conference, Puebla, Mexico,   
May 15- 20, 2012
Among the many presenters and group leaders will be these NYIGT members: Jack Aylward, Dan Bloom, Philip Brownell, Sylvia Crocker, Bud Feder, Gail Feinstein, Gianni Francesetti, Ruella Frank, Toni Gilligan, Elinor Greenberg, Susan Gregory, Carl Hodges, Perry Klepner, Peter Philippson, Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Carmen Vazquez Bandin, Lee Zevy.

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