How Dreams Help [Paperback]

Harry Wilmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

“Growing numbers of people are fascinated by the dream world. From psychological scholars and analysts to spontaneous groups and cults, the dream has a compelling voice…I make the point in this book that our dreams are our most creative inner source of wisdom and hope…The criterion for selection is simply that each one illustrates a common human life experience that all readers have had or are likely to have.”

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About the Author

Harry Wilmer is founder, emeritus director and president of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado in the small central Texas village where he has lived since 1971. He is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in Salado. Wilmer received his M.D. and other degrees from the University of Minnesota. He has been a National Research Council fellow in the medical sciences at Johns Hopkins, a fellow in internal medicine and neuropsychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, and later a consultant in psychiatry there. His creative work in the Navy was the subject of an award-winning ABC docudrama, starring Lee Marvin and with Arthur Kennedy as Wilmer. Bill Moyers produced two PBS-TV documentaries on Wilmer's work at the Salado institute and he has authored numerous books and articles, and lectured throughout the world. He and his wife Jane raised five children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Daimon Verlag (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3856305823
• ISBN-13: 978-3856305826
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,977,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Remembering my mentor, August 18, 2003

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This review is from: How Dreams Help (Paperback)

I worked with Dr. Wilmer (or as many of his V.A. patients called him, "Dr. Harry) from 1978-1983, when I was one of his students and psychiatric residents at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. His ability to take Jung's theory of dream interpretation and put it into practical use in the course of therapy was impressive and powerful. Twice a week with 25-30 seriously disturbed veterans on an inpatient unit, he would have his "dream seminars", in which the analysis of 2 patients dreams from the previous night, truly became a therapeutic experience for all concerned. Harry "demystifies" Jung and and at the same time he never ignores the advances of the "science" of dreams and sleep research. A scientist/psychiatrist/therapist of great wisdom. I am deeply grateful for those years I worked with him.