A detailed presentation of the essence of the innovative method and several cases from practice. Quite an interesting, though hampered by not quite high-quality translation, reading.
The author’s biography could become the basis for the novel: he went to his calling for 51 years! At this age, the Frenchman Georges Rome, working as an employee in a large company, met his first patient and began to develop his original method of free dreaming. It consists of three parts: meeting, dreaming, interpretation. Free sleep differs from night dreaming in that the patient is awake, albeit as relaxed as possible, and, observing the emerging images, describes them to the therapist. The therapist does not suggest the path of fantasy, but he plays an active role in interpretation, since he remembers all the vicissitudes of the plot better than the «dreamer» himself and has a kind of library of symbols. Romet describes some therapeutic cases and gives a detailed theoretical justification for the effectiveness of his method, including neurological data, symbol analysis, semantic and emotional aspects of the dream. Unfortunately, the translation of the book, which is scientifically correct, leaves much to be desired in terms of the literary language: at times it resembles a technical one, and at other times it contains classic errors like “approaching the station, my hat fell off”: “faced with the suffering of Adrian, compassion forced me to go beyond my professional role.»
Kogito-Center, 208 p.