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[edit] Deletion or Cleanup
I have added some tags to this document, in the hope that an editor with more knowledge of the subject area and wikipedia process picks up on it and is able to tidy it up. From the research I have conducted into the subject member, I believe this article is unencyclopedic. I was thinking about moving the whole article into the talk, but have decided against it for the moment. I will check back on this article shortly.
I believe the article should be deleted because:
- Wikipedia is not a soapbox, and this article appears to be written by the subject of the article and pitches the products of the author on amazon.
- There is no evidence of notability. The article claims the person is notable but does not include enough information to explain why the person is notable.
- The article does not follow BOLP standards including referenced secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the author. Specifically there are no referenced:
- Credible independent biography.
- Widespread media coverage.
- Demonstration of wide name recognition from reliable sources.
- In depth, independent, coverage in multiple publications.
Icemotoboy 23:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unreferenced Version
I have moved the unreferenced version to this page:
[edit] Education
Kaplan-Williams earned two masters degrees at the university of California Los Angeles and San Francisco in English literature and Counseling psychology. He received extensive Jungian analytical training for ten years with the Guild for Psychological Studies, [1] under Dr. Elizabeth Howes, San Francisco, graduating as one of their main twelve leaders in 1976. He has undergone fifteen years of Jungian analysis and has had many other trainings in modern California therapy approaches. He is responsible for originating the Jungian-Senoi method of dreamwork development and healing, as published in his now classic, Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual (1980), Elements of Dreamwork,(1991) and Dreamworking (1991)[2].
[edit] Professional Activity
Kaplan-Williams founded the first dreamwork institute, the Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Institute in 1977 in Berkeley, California, U.S.A., not devoted to any one psychology but devoted to the psychology of dreamwork in practice by professionals and lay people alike. It was in existence for eleven years, during which time it offered a yearly professional training program in dreamwork and dreamwork psychology.
For more about how Kaplan-Williams originated the Jungian-Senoi approach and uses it in training professionals in psychology see [3], which is the Romanian Dreamwork Centre as part of the Romanian Transpersonal psychology association. For more on the Jungian-Senoi dreamwork approach see also the Romanian Dreamwork Centers pages at [4].
Strephon Kaplan-Williams has been cited as a “famous dreamwork researcher.”[5] by the Romanian Dreamwork Centre [6] which he helped found with Ovidiu Brazdau, a Romanian transpersonal psychologist and researcher. Professor Ion Manzat, PhD; President of the Romanian Association for Transpersonal Psychology has said of Kaplan-Williams,
"Strephon Kaplan Williams is the greatest researcher of the dream world nowadays. He is the most important figure in the dreamwork field, after Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung."[7]
IASD President, Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. said this of Kaplan-Williams work:
“Two of the most influential books I read were Patty Garfield's Creative Dreaming and Strephon Kaplan Williams' The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual." [8] DreamTime (July, 1997).
Strephon Kaplan-Williams is the originating founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), founded in 1984 with co-founders Patricia Garfield, Gayle Delaney and Jeremy Taylor, and today the major organization in the field of dreams and their many approaches to understanding them. He was officially cites by the board as a Co-Founder in July 21, 1994 at the annual conference, Leiden, Holland. For a list of Kaplan-Williams accomplishments in the dream and dreamwork field, they are listed with The International Association For The Study Of Dreams[9].
Kaplan-Williams has contributed a number of articles to the association’s member magazine, DreamTime, over the years[10]. He has presented at a number of their conferences.
Strephon Kaplan-Williams started the first dreamwork training program for professionals (1979) at his newly formed Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Institute in Berkeley, California involving weekly year-long study in the basic techniques for doing dreamwork with individuals and groups not associated with any one school of psychology.
Here is another quotation from a figure of major influence on American alternative culture with people now numbering in the millions from former professor at Harvard and current author, Ram Dass,
"Strephon, your analysis techniques are impressive indeed"
In Norway the founding president of the Norwegian Psychodrama Institute, Dr. Eva Roine, has said this of Strephon Kaplan-Williams,
"Your training with our students from the advanced level proved to be very inspiring and effective. Your special style, provocation combined with warmth and integrity, made a great impact on us."(The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual - 1978,1980, Journey Press, California).
Strephon Kaplan-Williams is also listed in Global Dreaming News because of his International stature in teaching lay and professional people in the countries of Netherlands, Scotland, England, Norway and Romania with full dreamwork training programs for professionals in dreamwork psychology [11] [12]. He has given one, two and three year professional training programs to psychologists and lay people in dreamwork psychology since 1980, when he originated a long-term dreamwork training program for professionals outside any school of psychology. Dreamwork as a separate field of psychology had never been taught before. He has taught his approach in eleven countries. These include: United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany and Romania. These teaching experiences have been described in detail in his book, Dreamworking - A Comprehensive Guide for Working with Dreams (1991), in which Kaplan-Williams describes over thirty of the major dreamwork techniques with many case examples that he used in his professional trainings. A more recent example of his original coursework for professionals can be found at the web pages for the Romanian Dreamwork Center: [13].
The following quotation is typical of what some dreamwork students say about Strephon Kaplan-Williams dreamworking approach as best described in his books, Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual and Dreamworking.
”I have been keeping written records of my dreams since 1972. When I was in my early twenties, I came across Strephon Kaplan-Williams book, The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual, which is a grass-roots dreamwork book based on groups he was leading in Berkeley, California. This book enabled me to see that I could actually work with my dreams in a variety of creative ways, instead of just recording them. The many methods of dreamworking explored in this book opened up a whole new world for me, and deepened my sense of their importance to my day-to-day life.“ Cedar Rose [14]
[edit] Originator
Strephon Kaplan-Williams is the first to originate the terms, dreamwork psychology and dream psychology to differentiate dreams and dreamwork as a separate branch of psychology[citation needed].
Until 2002, when Strephon Kaplan-Williams and a few psychologists made the initial declaration, dreams and dreamwork had always been considered a part of a school of psychology. Now he saw that dreams and dreamwork should be differentiated as a separate branch of psychology itself. Such a branch of psychology needs a developed psychology curriculum, institutes to teacher dreamwork psychology as well as do further research and development[citation needed].
Kaplan-Williams is responsible for redefining the terms, dreamwork (Freud invented the term but did not combine the words, a conscious decision), dream ego, or drego, and waking ego, objectifying dreams, dream source, dream reentry, dreamwork psychology, and the ego and the seven basic archetypes model. He is the first to compile together a set of complete dreamwork techniques, many credited to their originators, some he originated himself. He is personally responsible for originating the dreamwork methods: Objectifying Dreams, Following the Dream Ego, the Dream Task, Seven Basic Archetypes Dreamwork and modifying these other techniques substantially: Dream Dialogue, Dream Enactments, Dream Reentry(of which he originated the term) and Shamanic Dreamwork. These techniques were originally published in his Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual (1978, 1980) and further expanded in his Dreamworking: A Comprehensive Guide For Working With Dreams (1991).
[edit] Works
As a contribution to this newly emerging field, Strephon Kaplan-Williams wrote and published three dreamwork manuals: the Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual (1978, 1980), Dreamworking (1991), and Elements of Dreamwork (1991).
Kaplan-Williams published the first Dream Cards (1991, Simon and Schuster, sold over 110,000 copies in eight languages). They are still being re-published in the Netherlands (Droomkaarten), Brazil and Germany (Traum Symbol Karten) fifteen years later, but are not yet available again in English. He also published in 2004 the private editions The Dream Alphabet and The Dream Cards Recipes. His other published books include The Practice of Personal Transformation, Transforming Childhood.
[edit] Current developments
Current developments for Strephon Kaplan-Williams at his present age of seventy-two (2006-2007) are focused on Internet publishing and outreach.
- He is a popular podcaster in spiritual and psychological subjects with a current rate of over 1,000 new listeners a week for a total in January, 2007 of almost 50,000 total listeners.
- He specializes also in the new field of Information Processing, having originated the first computer software, interactive interface[citation needed].
He has just published in 2006 the first fully comprehensive, 92,000 word, software interface called The Writer’s Interface for use with the WriteItNow software for writers on both the Macintosh and PC’s.
Strephon Kaplan-Williams will demonstrate his own testing of his new The Writer’s Interface by using it in the coming year to write at least one novel. He has already started with a ‘Jesus novel.’
Developments of The Writer’s Interface, now being sold to the public, is recorded on The Writer’s Interface Blog, run by Strephon Kaplan-Williams and associate, Stefania Frumentia Marian.
Icemotoboy 09:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion over Cleanup/Deletion
I reference my comments above over the reasons why this article needs work. My main point out of this is that the article contains no references that indicate the article is encyclopedic, notable, and objective. The only links that are provided are to a commercial site selling books by the subject person. There are some rather bold statements that are not clear, and not referenced, such as having originated the first computer software, interactive. It would appear it is claimed he originated the first interactive computer software, which is rather a bold claim. All claims need to be referenced, bold or not, but this one would need several references. Every statement made must be referenced to an external site that is objective and independent of the subject person, such as a major scientific journal or news organization. In many cases, several references will be required. If there are no references, then that means the article probably does not satisfy the Notability guidelines that I linked above. I have been researching the subject person but have been unable to find anything, so would appreciate any help otherwise the article doesn't meet the notability requirements for an article at all. This isn't myspace or youtube, articles about a person have to be created according to the notability guidelines. Icemotoboy 23:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
