Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781446247105)

Delia Cushway (BA, MSc Clinical Psychology, PhD, C Psychol clin/foren, ABPsS), is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Coventry University and a practising Registered Clinical Psychologist. Delia worked for 20 years in clinical psychology training. Initially working at the University of Birmingham, she set up the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the Universities of Coventry and Warwick in 1998 and was its Director until 2008. Before working as a clinical psychologist Delia worked in the Prison Service as a psychologist, where she served the equivalent of two life sentences before getting parole!

Delia grew up, psychologically speaking, at the same time as humanistic psychology and trained in the humanistic therapies of psychodrama, transactional analysis, and particularly Gestalt Therapy, in the 1970s. She has an Integrationist clinical orientation with a strong humanistic philosophical base. Delia′s research, teaching and clinical interests include dream work, reflective practice, supervision, Gestalt therapy, and stress and self-care, and she has written and published widely in these areas.

Delia discovered dream working through Gestalt therapy and started running dream groups when working with prisoners, whom she discovered often had rich and colourful dream lives. In 1985 she started running dream groups, with her friend and colleague Robyn Sewell, with whom she wrote the first edition of this book. Together they ran well over 100 dream workshops including many at Vaughan College, for Leicester University′s Adult Education programme, and at Westminster Pastoral Foundation, London. Delia′s work with dreams and nightmares has continued to evolve and she has incorporated more recent cognitive approaches into her clinical practice and workshops.