Dwight Turner 'Individuation, Privilege, and Otherness: Dreams & Active Imagination' Senior Lecturer, Author, Therapist,

Individuation, Privilege & Otherness: Dreams & Active Imagination

In my book, titled Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy, the aim is to actually explore the internalised experience of privilege and otherness and of internalised racism, sexism and homophobia, etc. The last chapter though, looks at how we can actually work with these internalised experiences, especially through the language of dreams. Borrowing from Carl Jung’s ideas around free association and active imagination, the dreams explored in chapter five of the book involve an uncovering of these internalised objects and how they play themselves out in the dreamscape, and also this looks at just how devastating some of these internalised symbols can be for the psychology of those persons of colour who endure racism. The third part to this exploration is actually how through working this often dark, shadowy and destructive material, those persons of otherness, in this case…