Schemas of The Night: Phantom or Real
Dream Material can give access to schemas, particularly the unconditional schemas of early childhood, that may be difficult for clients to emotionally connect with in sessions. Research from neurobiology, sleep and memory studies will be presented to explain how this happens and how the dreaming process is thought to be critical in the process of memory consolidation particularly in connecting current events with past experience. A case study of working with a dream of client A will be presented. The presentation will demonstrate how to connect the therapist’s in depth knowledge of the client’s schemas and modes from their case conceptualisation with dream material. Facilitating exploration of the dream through the emotional focus techniques of schema therapy can enable connection with the vulnerable child mode, often for the first time, as well as emotional expression of the schemas.
Speaker
Lynda ParryClick for moreClinical Psychologist
ISST Certified Supervisor-Trainer in Individual Schema Therapy
Accredited Group Schema Therapist
Lynda is a Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years of experience in private practice. Originally trained as an early childhood educator, her passion for developmental psychology led her to complete four years of postgraduate study and gain accreditation in contemporary psychotherapy.
Lynda has a longstanding interest in dream work, which she has integrated into her clinical and training practices for more than 25 years. She presented her first paper,
Dream Analysis: Is It Obsolete?
, at the International Psychotherapy Conference in 2010, and has continued to research and incorporate dream work into Schema Therapy ever since.
Trained in psychodrama, Lynda worked at The Psychodrama Centre in Sydney for a decade. Her experience facilitating psychodrama groups and training in CBT provided a strong foundation for her embrace of the experiential elements central to Schema Therapy.
She is the Director of the Schema Therapy Centre of NSW and has held multiple leadership roles within the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), including:
· Past Chair of the ISST Quality Assurance Committee
· Former member of the ISST Ethics Committee
· Former member of the ISST Training and Certification Advisory Board
· Former Co-Regional Training Coordinator for Australia
· Chair of the National Training Directors Committee
Lynda is also a published author. Her article
Schema Therapy and Dreams: Accessing the Vulnerable Child
appeared in the ISST Bulletin in December 2018. In addition to providing core Schema Therapy training, she runs workshops on
Schema Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares
and
Experiencing Schema Therapy From the Inside Out
. Her book chapter on
Schema Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares
is currently in progress.
