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Frederick
Perls
 Frederick
Perls (1893-1970) iss the founder of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt
therapy seeks to fill your emotional voids so that you can then become a unified whole. Perls
believes
that dreams contain the rejected, disowned parts of the Self. Every
character and every object in a dream represents an aspect of the Self.
You are the tornado, you are the attacker, you
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are
the broken down car and you are the dusty
book. Perls rejects the notion that dreams are part of a universal
symbolic language. He believes that each dream is unique to the individual who
dreams it.
In order to discover what aspect of yourself
is being
disowned, Perls believes that it is important to retell your dream in the present
tense and act it out accordingly. It is important to verbalize how each and every
component in your dream felt, even inanimate objects. Reenact the dream and
take on the role of the different characters and objects. Start a dialogue with the
dream object and express how you felt toward each other. By taking
on a different role within your dream and reenact it, you may then be able to
acknowledge and realize feelings that you may have overlooked or buried.
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