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.
Table of 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