Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life's Answers in Your Dreams [Paperback]

Alan B. Siegel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 2002

During times of crisis and trauma, as well as transition—beginning or ending a relationship, facing illness, changing jobs, leaving home, dealing with loss —dreams can be a valuable resource for problem solving. Make smart decisions during these critical times with the practical and engaging insight of DREAM WISDOM. This handbook shows you how to use your dreams—and nightmares—as a guide to understanding your unconscious feelings and needs and includes tools for learning dream recall, an explanation of common dream symbols, and more than 140 actual turning-point dreams, all analyized to reveal their hidden meaning. DREAM WISDOM will enhance your ability to interpret your inner feelins and resolve major challenges, turning the difficult passages of life into opportunitites for growth and success.• Analyzes dreams about relationships, expectant mothers, separation and divorce, work, grief and healing, and midlife.• Includes instructions for creating a dream journal, incubating problem-solving dreams, and setting up dream groups.• An accessible means of tapping into an often-unexplored part of the mind.Reviews“Innovative and beautifully researched. Alan Siegel is a refreshing and articulate advocate of psychotherapeutic dream analysis” —San Francisco Chronicle“This book CAN change your life if you focus on your dreams as turning points.” — Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective“Excellent . . . This is a book that can be confidently recommended to anyone wanting to draw on the wisdom of their dreams” —The California Psychologist“A uniquely positive look at dreams through the lifespan.”— Robert van de Castle Professor Emeritus University of Virginia and author of Our Dreaming Mind

Editorial Reviews

Review

Alan Siegel is a refreshing and articulate advocate of psychotherapeutic dream analysis. -- San Francisco Chronicle

This book CAN change your life. -- Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective

This is a book that can be confidently recommended to anyone wanting to draw on the wisdom of their dreams. -- The California Psychologist

From the Publisher

Dream Wisdom links the exploration of a dream's meaning to our emotional reactions to important life events including coverage of:

Effective strategies for soothing nightmares and unlocking their healing and transformative powers;

Childhood dreams and nightmares including recurring dreams, night terrors and strategies to help parents soothe their children’s bad dreams;

Crisis Dreams and nightmares that offer aid at times of accidents, crimes, war and natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and fires;

Healing Dreams to speed recovery from injury and illness;

Grief Dreams for those facing the death of a loved one or other losses

Relationship Dreams that illustrate how to work out feats of intimacy and commitment.

Dreams of Expectant Mothers and Fathers of conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting.

Separation and Divorce Dreams that offer clues to breaking up, recovering & moving on.

Career Dreams that can help you resolve career conflicts and find new visions and directions in your work.

Midlife Dreams that shed light on the transition from old to new identities.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts (December 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587611589
• ISBN-13: 978-1587611582
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #882,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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