Welcome to the SEER Method

Systemic, Embodied, and Experiential approaches in trauma Reprocessing.

​Dreams without Dreaming​.

Challenging the Freudian Paradigm.

The Dreams without Dreaming project combines the Cultural–Social Model of dreams with the SEER Method of psychotherapy. According to the Cultural–Social Model, dreams are essentially false memories of experiences that never occurred during sleep, and dream content is largely determined by external social and cultural factors rather than internal psychological function. The SEER Method uses systematic, experiential and embodied perspectives in the context of trauma recovery.

Dreams, their interpretation, and their relation to traumatic memory are central to psychotherapeutic practice, especially for patients with trauma-based cognitive disorders, who frequently experience nightmares and negative reactions to dreams as part of their condition. However, in recent decades, challenges to the Freudian paradigm on which much of this practice is based mean that there is less consensus about dreaming; this challenges current psychological practice.

The Alternative View.

SEER Therapy.

Tom Stoneham, a philosophy professor at the University of York, has developed an alternative to the standard view of dreaming as caused by unconscious processes. His view is that dream reports are triggered by memories of nocturnal experiences of bodily and environmental changes, but the details of the dream we report are determined by cultural influences and social expectations on us.

Dzmitry Karpuk, a systemic psychotherapist, developed the SEER Method, which utilises systemic, experiential and embodied perspectives in the trauma recovery context. The SEER Method runs counter to most existing theories of dreams, but is compatible with the Cultural–Social Model. This combination provides a coherent system of theory and practice, which we deliver through CPD training events around the UK. We stay in touch with some participants to discuss their experience of using SEER and to assess its effectiveness.