The changing role of the patient in dream work.

Over the past 2000 years or so of interest in dream interpretation, and especially in the last century, the dreamer almost exclusively stood outside the dream, and tried to work out the meaning of the dream. This "outside" position of the patient remained through a variety of approaches. Several approaches have been developed recently in which the person or patient goes "inside" the dream to do the dream work. As yet, a small proportion of dream workers use this approach.