All About Dreams: Everything You Need To Know About *Why We Have Them *What They Mean *and How To Put Them To Work for You [Paperback]

Gayle M. Delaney (Author)

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Publication Date: June 3, 1998

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DREAMS

Why we have them, what they mean, and how to put them to work for you.

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About the Author

Gayle M. Delaney, has been featured as a dream expert on Oprah, Good Morning America, Leeza, Joan Rivers, and countless other television and radio shows worldwide. She lives in Mill Valley, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne; 1 edition (June 3, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062514113
• ISBN-13: 978-0062514110
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #901,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Founding President, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Summa Cum laude Princeton University, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Union Graduate School, Co-Director with Loma K. Flowers, MD, Delaney & Flowers Center for the Study of Dreams.

Pioneer in the use of dreams for problem solving and in the interpretation of dreams using "Dream Interview" questions rather than preconceived beliefs, myths, psychological dogma, or the interpreter's projections often called intuitions.
My approach will appeal only to those who do not need a guru, and want to figure out what their own brains are telling them at night in their own private language.

I have presented this non-denominational dream work on hundreds of TV shows including Oprah, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, GMA, Anderson 380 and at many Universities and private and professional societies. My goal is to get the superstition out of dream work, to teach people how to understand the meaning and usefulness of their dreaming minds that are so very adept at helping one to recognize, assess, and resolve daily problems and opportunities.

If you remember that even your nightmares are there to help you, you can save yourself years of confusion, conflict, and in come cases, bad marriages and unwise decisions. Your dreams don't do the work for you, they do not decide things for you, they give you the fuller picture of the situation so you can make better choices.

My books focus on practical applications of my Dream Interview method which I began to formulate one day in 1971 in a class on dreaming at Princeton when I was a senior. I tell the story in Living Your Dreams.

My favorite book? Ah! For teaching the "Dream Interview" method, Breakthrough Dreaming: How to Use the Power of Your 24-Hour Mind. For sheer fun: Sensual Dreaming. For the beginner, In Your Dreams. For problem solving in Dreams: Living Your Dreams. For an overview of my work and the field, All About Dreams. All are described on my site: www.gdelaney.com. There you will also find a couple of videos from my Today Show talks on dreams.

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some very good info, but unorganized and choppy, October 18, 1999

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Rebecca Lawson - See all my reviews

This review is from: All About Dreams: Everything You Need To Know About *Why We Have Them *What They Mean *and How To Put Them To Work for You (Paperback)

This book could be a real gem, if only there was more focus and flow in its organization. I particularly like the methodologies put forth for dream analysis, and felt the book's strength is in its "how to" appeal. I also liked some of the background and historical perspective. I think a good editor could have re-organized and streamlined the content to make it more readable. I also did not like the frequent references to Ms. Delaney's other books. It seems like they were advertising rather than valid references.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Freud or Jung but close enough, July 7, 2001

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This review is from: All About Dreams: Everything You Need To Know About *Why We Have Them *What They Mean *and How To Put Them To Work for You (Paperback)

I have been facinated with dreams since I was a child (I think we all are fascinated with dreams) so I have read as much material on this subject, from the mystic to the more cognitive stuff. This book is really good. Not mystic but not to 'scientific' to require a PhD from Yale. It has helped me to understand why I dream what I dream and how the dreams I have at night are a way that my subconcious reveals to me the inner thoughts of my soul.

26 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars all about nothing, September 16, 1999

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This review is from: All About Dreams: Everything You Need To Know About *Why We Have Them *What They Mean *and How To Put Them To Work for You (Paperback)

Our reading group chose this title to look at dreams. With eager anticipation we read the book. It was amazing to me that this book was so shallow. It was written like an academic paper that received a D from her professor. Not only was the content unimaginaitive and the conclusions dubious, the typefaces of the books made it hard to read - actually distracting. I wanted to find something of value and found only psycho-babble of the most unenlightened kind. For those who believe they will better understand dreams from reading this book, beware. You will understand nothing more than you do now and will in fact be loaded down with nonsense. This is a zero star book. How did it receive five stars? Five stars....in your dreams Dr.