Dreamscaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others [Paperback]

Stanley Krippner (Editor), Mark Robert Waldman (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Roxbury Park Books | Publication Date: September 1999

In this rich collection, the first in Roxbury Park's New Visions anthology series, editors Stanley Krippner and Mark Waldman bring together leading authorities on dreams, providing readers with many innovative methods for working with themselves, their partners, and groups. Readers will learn how to better recall their dreams, construct dream narratives, dialogue with characters in their dreams, keep a dream journal, and process recurrent dreams and nightmares.

Dreamscaping also explores exciting new developments in dreamwork theory, with an eye on spiritual and psychological growth.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

While more than 1,500 books on dreams are currently in print, this collection of essays is not only a rich resource of information but also an entertaining and illuminating read. There's "A Shamanic Dream Journey" by Greywolf Swinney, "Dream Lovers" by Jenny Davidow, "Six Steps for Incubating Dreams" by Gayle Delaney, "How Dreams Reflect Neurological Disorders" by Oliver Sachs (author of the The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), and 27 others. Among the writings are techniques for recalling dreams, deciphering meanings, creating dialogue with dream characters, creating dream journals, understanding recurring nightmares, and applying dream messages to real life. The editors also are highly respected authorities in the field. Krippner was the past president of the renowned Association for Humanistic Psychology and former director of the dream laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center, while Waldman is the founding editor of the Transpersonal Review. --P. Randall Cohan

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lowell House (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0737302682
• ISBN-13: 978-0737302684
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,307,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous! A complete guide to new ways to work with dreams!, October 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dreamscaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others (Paperback)

DreamScaping is just great. Usually dream books are the opinion of one person. This book has dozens of people and they are clearly all tops in their fields. I really enjoyed this book and learned more about dreams and dreamwork in one reading than all the rest of the dream books I have read together. |Bill

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent sampling of perspectives on dreams, August 25, 2003

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bored99 (Hamden, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamscaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others (Paperback)

Opinions on the nature and meaning of dreams vary widely, from the uber-scientific to the uber-mystical. Rather than making a case for the "right" way to understand dreams or presenting a formulaic approach (which has already been done in countless books), this book surveys leaders in a number of different fields and presents their varied opinions to the reader via a compilation of essays. If you're looking for a quick, dogmatic answer to one of life's mysteries, this book will be frustrating to you. But if you're looking for different ideas on how to approach one particular dream, or looking for a perspective on how different experts approach this topic, you will likely find the book fascinating as I did. The friend who gave it to me is a psychiatrist, but the collection of essays that comprise the book were written by a wide range of people--including a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a shaman, a traditional dream researcher, a paranormal dream researcher, a social worker, a moderator for an online dream sharing group, and others. While I did not agree with all the opinions presented, I found the variety enriched my understanding and enlarged my "toolkit" for exploring my own dreams.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreamscaping: a compilation not a how to do manual, September 29, 2002

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Thanosztitan (las pinas Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreamscaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others (Paperback)

I was really disappointed with this book. I expected a manual or atleast a guide on how to use dreams for self improvement and self understanding. The book is a compilation of several short writings about different authors ranging from personal expericences to general tips about dreams. The one thing I
learned from this book that is useful is to record your dreams
in a journal and keep it beside your bed, the rest you're better off with other books or if you're low on cash just surf the net. You would have greater insights. Bottom line: Only buy this book if you want to hear about different experiences about dreams but don't buy it if you want to learn how to use dreams effectively and constructively. You been warned the rest is up to you.