Customer Reviews

A Little Course in Dreams

5 star:		(3)
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3 star:		(1)
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If your want to start a dream journal, this is a great book. It is small enough to take anywhere. He also uses real people's dreams to illistrate different exercises and ideas which really helped me understand my own dreams better.

It may only be 121 pages long, but this slim volume is the best introduction to Jungian dreamwork that I've ever read. Each brief chapter is written in a deceptively conversational, non-convoluted style that contains a wealth of complex information -- not just important facts, but plenty to think about afterwards. For example, the chapter on alchemy & its symbolic value in dreamwork is all of 14 pages ... but it enables me to understand the basics of Jung's alchemical approach to the psyche more clearly than entire books. Bosnak may be providing us with nothing more than starting points, but they're solid & surprisingly rich in detail & substance. It's as if this skilled & understanding analyst is speaking directly to the reader, not just as doctor to patient, but as person to person.

If you're at all interested in exploring the world & meaning of your dreams, but you're daunted by the sheer immensity of the subject, and unsure of where to start -- well, this is the place -- most highly recommended!

this author knows what he is doing. a respectful effective way to responsibly engage your dream world and benefit by it.

I wasn't very interested in this book. I can't remember anything really good or really bad about it, hence the 3 stars. It was more wishy-washy lovey-dovey feel-good than I prefer, so it might actually be a great book for you if that is your style.