Dreaming the Social

John Clare is a Retired Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, who, after being a sociology lecturer at London University, worked as a therapist in the NHS and private practice. He is a founder member of the Multi-lingual Psychotherapy Centre. He has written on Samuel Beckett and Psychoanalysis and on ‘Dreams before 9/11’. He is now an expressionist painter living in Wales, where he has been running a social dreaming matrix since 2009. Ali Zarbafi is a Jungian Analyst and Clinical Supervisor. He is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a founder member of the Multilingual Psychotherapy Centre. He worked in the NHS for 30 years and has written on the refugee experience, multilingualism and working with the interpreter in clinical work.

Acknowledgements

Foreword by W. Gordon Lawrence

Introduction

PART I
What is Social Dreaming?

1. Social dreaming and the self

John Clare

2. The night train of social dreams

Ali Zarbafi

PART II
Social Dreaming in practice

3. Dreaming after 9/11

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

4. Sweet honey in the rock

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

5. The end of the dance: Dreams at a literary festival

John Clare, appendum by Jane Storr

6. We are all slaves to babble—land: A mass dreaming experiment

John Clare

7. Dreaming in the inner city

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

8. Social Dreaming: A no-goal method?

Ali Zarbafi

PART III
The long matrix Hay-on-Wye 2009-23

9. Where are we going?

John Clare

10. Covid: The invisible invasion

John Clare

11. War in Europe

John Clare

12. Conclusion

John Clare and Ali Zarbafi

Glossary

Bibliography

Index