Dreamworking by Christopher Sowton is a very comprehensive book on consciously working with your to enhance your life. It's different than just dream dictionary. It's influenced by the authors work in Gestalt therapy. There are some dream symbols in the back of the book, but it's more than just a dream dictionary. It's more of how to use your dreams for self-improvement.

I thought this book was a wonderful guide to understanding ones dreams and being guided by them. I have always been amazed by the power of our dreams and what they can provide for us in our waking life. This book helped me explore that more. I think.this is a wonderful book for anyone interested in working with their dreams to better understand themselves.

Excellent to facilitate personal growth and change!
This is a complete guide if you are interested in working in a personal way with your dreams, with fundamentals of psychotherapy and have tools of transformation, self-discovery, growth and personal health. The author covers the theoretical, the practical part, frequent problem tips, practical solutions and useful quick reference appendices.
From his experiences in Gestalt therapy, the author noted that our sub-personalities have desires that are shown through dreams and lend themselves to self-awareness. The author intends that we benefit from dreamwork to recognize important messages of change and transformation of life communicated to us by our Self, and to nourish it in a way that can be developed.
Therefore, the content is oriented to understand and facilitate the work with dreams, and provides us with the approach and practical guidelines in a simple way. The 5-step method allows us to first capture the dream in our memory, then amplify the information impartially (history, emotions and associations embedded in the dream), thirdly get guidance to recognize what the dream tries to say (the motives), then be able to make the connection how this makes sense to you in your life, and finally you can respond with an action of change to that message. This is what gives you the benefit of dreamwork and what your Self is looking for: health and growth. The purpose is not to interpret the dream, since it may have no relation to the true message, but the discovery of the message that has a genuine resonance with personal life.
The step that I found most valuable and interesting is that motives can lead us to experience repetitive dreams that torment us. From the point of view of neuroscience it is because our brains can develop stuck neural patterns, as we are hard-wired to give more importance to ideas that seem threatening to us. Repetitive agonistic dreams are negative, and tend to contain messages from our childhood when our brains were molded with dysfunctional patterns, these dreams show you that you are still stuck, affected and limited by this limiting field (this psychological operating pattern, which manifests in your dreams exaggeratedly, but that is operating in your waking life too), and only if you recognize it can you take the choice to remain stuck the rest of your life or to visualize you moving towards another horizon.
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book