Healing Processes driven by our Unconscious in Free Wakeful Dreaming

Michel Depeyrot (Ph.D., Stanford, 1968), a multi-faceted scientist and entrepreneurial maverick, is an acclaimed practitioner of the therapeutic use of Georges Romey’s Free Wakeful Dreaming and Devi Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique. The former is an experience innovator who created this technique in France, then founded its promotional association ADREL (www.reve-eveille-libre.org) and its school (EREL).

With the insights and confidence of an enthused adherent and disciple, Depeyrot introduces a wide audience to Romey’s theories and practices in this first “primer” on Romey’s work since he launched this technique in the early eighties. Depeyrot translates key writings of Romey’s, which serve as an introduction to this revolutionary practice for an English-speaking audience. Romey’s theories of dream interpretation, melded with the pioneering works of Freud and Jung from an earlier generation, offers a basis for Romey’s therapeutic use of Free Wakeful Dreaming. More than just a translation, this fundamental anthology offers Romey’s theories with Depeyrot’s analyses and commentaries to ensure Romey’s place in the pantheon of psychoanalysts. What is most astounding from Depeyrot’s point of view is to witness the powerful and wise contribution of the patient’s unconscious to drive the healing process, turning the therapist’s role into that of a humble assistant, both compassionate and admiring, who neither interferes nor becomes involved in ways that lead to problems of transference and counter-transference.

This translation is a cornerstone for any who wish to understand a new and fresh approach to this analysis and practice of dream as a tool for a psychoanalytic therapy able to heal in a remarkably short time.

Michel Depeyrot (Stanford PhD, 1968) started in California with Dr. Michael Arbib his involvement in Brain modeling and Psychology: a multi-faceted scientist, he started as a lecturer and researcher in Control and Computer Systems in Paris, a modern science in which his first books were published, both in French and in English.

After five years in Massachusetts at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he benefited from the training of Joseph Luft, he returned to France and he founded and ran for twenty-five years a high-tech company in the French Alps: its wide export activity for the design of microelectronics takes him regularly around the world.

As an adamant follower of Carl-Gustav Jung, he became early a passionate practitioner of the therapeutic use of Georges Romey s Free Wakeful Dreaming and of Devi Nambudripad s Allergy Elimination Technique. The former is an experienced innovator who created this psychotherapeutic technique in France, then founded its promotional association ADREL and its school (EREL). His work is the object of this first book aiming at offering to America the gift of this technique in return for all what Michel Depeyrot has learnt there since studying at Stanford.

He now practices these therapeutic techniques daily in the area of Grenoble, France, focusing on patients with severe diseases, with whom he enjoys witnessing the powerful and wise guidance of the patient s unconscious to drive the healing process. This approach turns his therapist s role into that of a humble assistant, both compassionate and admiring, who neither interferes nor becomes involved in ways that lead to problems of transference and counter-transference.

He intends to focus on his clinical dedication, but also to share his chance to have learned and to practice such powerful therapies able to heal physical, physiological and psychological ills in a remarkably short time.