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Integrating traditional dream analysis with family psychology, clinical science, and parapsychology, Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, details how our personal unconscious is interwoven into our larger family unconscious. He shows how these dreamlife connections and patterns are as old as humanity itself, exploring ancient dream traditions from around the world. He explains how the dreamlife of a family can be viewed as a shared field or hologram, where each family member is enfolded into the dreams of the other members. This shared reality reveals itself in family and personal illnesses, in nightmares and unusual dreams, and during critical times such as crisis, pregnancy, conflicts, and medical emergencies. It also reveals itself in cases of simultaneous shared dreams and telepathic and precognitive dreams, explaining why so many people have dreams in which a family member appears to say good-bye, waking the next day to discover the same loved one has passed away.
Contents
Foreword: Does Your Family Need a Catalyst?
Carl A. Whitaker, M.D.
Introduction: The Labyrinth of Dreams
Part One
The Nocturnal Emissary
1 The Inner Landscape of Dreams
The Intimate Web of Family and Self
Modern Dream Interpretation
2 The Ancient Way
The African Cradle Cross-Cultural and Transcultural Modes of Dreaming
The Ancient Method Itself
3 The Web of Dreamlife in Family and Self
4 Research on Dreams: The Contribution of the Laboratory
The First Laboratories
The Modern Map of REM and Non-REM
Pathways of the Unconscious: Dreaming, Biochemistry, and the Brain Family Dreams and Bodily Sensations
The Dream and Bodily Illness
Dreams and Creativity
5 Defining Normal Family Dreams
The Intimate Web Is Awake
Family Dreams, Nightmares, and Night Terrors
Family Patterns: Dreams and Ways of Enfoldment
6 Extrasensory Family Dreams
Forms of Psi: ESP, Precognition, and the Shared Image
Precognitive Dreams
Psychokinetic Family Matters
The Dynamic Family Pattern as Psi Unfolds
Part Two
Family Dreams and Healing
7 Family Dreams of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): A Specific Style
The Inward Asylum
Family Dynamics of ACOA
ACOA Dream Styles
ACOA Family Roles
ACOA Dynamics: The Dream and Art
Oedipus and ACOA
The ACOA Family Legacy
Clinical Fallout of ACOA
Summary of ACOA Family Styles
8 Family Dreams during Pregnancy
The Ocean of Birth: Dynamics and Themes
Research on Dreams and Pregnancy: The Trimesters
Six Common Themes of Pregnancy Dreams
Three Additional Dream Themes: The Hero in Family, Psyche, Myth, and Spirit Summary
9 Family Dreams in Therapeutic Form
Kinship Bonds and Family Dreams
Family Dreams in Individual Therapy
Family Dreams Outside of Therapy
Dreams in Couples Therapy
Dreams in Family Therapy
Group Dreamwork
Kemetic Imagery and Healing Assessment Protocol
Guiding Questions to Unfold Imagery and Healing Processes
10 The Dream of Infinite Life: The Further Reaches of the Dream in Family and Self
Organizing Images and Behavior
Family Dreams and Death
Family Dreams Beyond Death
Dreams and Reality
The Disciplines of Sleep: Lucid Dreams and Yoga Nidra Creativity and Dreams
Dreams, Imagery, and Healing: A Return to Personalism in Science and the Universe
Epilogue: From Matter to Dream to Light
Appendix A: The Family Dreams Research Project: Protocol for Participation
Appendix B: Kemetic Imagery and Healing Assessment Protocol
Appendix C: Films in Which Dreaming and/or Dreams Are Depicted
Appendix D: Recommended Reading Notes Works Cited Author Index
Subject
Index
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