Full Description
This fascinating and accessible book offers a comprehensive overview of dream interpretation theory and modern dream science, presenting an argument for dreamwork as a means to better understand emotional challenges and achieve personal growth.
Bridging the gap between cognitive-behavioral therapies, psychoanalysis and depth psychology, the book explores topics like lucid dreams, end-of-life dreams, cross-cultural dream analysis and Freudian and Jungian models of dream interpretation. The authors offer a new model for better understanding dreams based on symbol formation, narrative structure and current neurophysiology, with the aim of reinvigorating the way we value dreams and their importance to individuals and society.
The Wisdom of Dreams can be of great interest to analysts and therapists, including psychiatrists, psychologists, sleep researchers, social workers and counselors, as well as anyone interested in working with their dreams for greater personal clarity and self-understanding.
Contents
Introduction Part I: The Dream Journey 1. The Daimon Within 2. Synchronicity 3. Gender Issues in Dreamwork 4. Befriending Your Dreams Part II: Dreams that Change Lives 5. Dreams and Creativity 6. Lucid Dreaming 7. Dreams and Psychedelic Drugs 8. End of Life Dreams and Visions 9. Prophetic Dreams 10. Nightmares Part III Reintegrating the Dream Narrative 11. A False Translation 12. The Black Madonna 13. Stickholm is Burning 14. Sparks of the Divine 15. Istikhara 16. The Gods Within 17. The Way of No Words 18. Dreaming Awake Part IV: Why We Dream 19. Asleep in a Cage 20. The Language of the Mind 21. A Narrative Model of Dreams 22. Affects, Archetypes and Cigarettes Part V: Listening with the Third Ear 23. Finding Irma: Freudian Dream Theory 24. Irma Reimagined: Jungian Dream Theory 25. Dream Symbols 26. Active Imagination 27. Using Dreams in Therapy Conclusion
