TIA - Therapy by the Imaginary in Action - consists of freeing the dreamer from emotional blockages and psychological disorders through dream sessions in the presence of a therapist. Unlike current methods in psychology, psychoanalysis, EMDR, hypnosis, ... in TIA, it is the dreamer who is entirely responsible for his or her own healing, without any injunction from the therapist. The therapist intervenes only after the dream, offering the dreamer an interpretation based on the symbolism and syntax of the imaginary.
This new method of therapy created by Michel Depeyrot is in line with the work of remarkable predecessors such as Carl Gustav Jung (Active Imagination), Robert Desoille (Directed Waking Dreams) and Georges Romey (Free Waking Dreams).
More often, if it remains uninterrupted until its end, a night dream is compensatory for emotional problems that have arisen in the days leading up to it. Whereas a TIA dream enables issues to be resolved in the deeper psyche and on a complete time scale: from adult life to childhood, sometimes going back to the dreamer's fœtal period.
To dream is to give free rein to the imagination, in other words, to let the unconscious express itself. We rarely have the opportunity to do it in our active lives, yet thoughts that wander, a Freudian slip, an intuition that rises within us, these are just some of the many examples that remind us of the continuous presence of our unconscious. The unconscious expresses itself to the conscious mind through images, which together create what we call a dream, a scenario of the imagination in action.