All About Dreams - Softcover

Gayle; Ph.D. Delaney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062514113 ISBN 13: 9780062514110

Publisher: Bravo Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Falling, flying, making love to a stranger, being naked in public - we've all woken up, wondering "Why did I dream that?" In this guide to the world of night time fantasies, nightmares, and visions, dream specialist Gayle Delaney helps readers interpret, understand, and direct their dreaming. Drawing together dream history and other techniques, she lets readers in on the most fascinating thinking about dream interpretation and explains how the ancients used and understood dreams. Delaney shows readers how to live their dreams and direct what they dream about and when. She also offers a complete resource guide of "dream-y" books and tapes, study groups, and web sites. From a survey of dream history - Aristotle to Jung - to the ways in which business, arts, science, and health care use dreamwork today, Delaney presents a dream "bible".

About this title

About the Author

Gayle Delaney, Ph.D. is the author of many books on dreams, including Living Your Dreams, In Your Dreams, and The Dream Kit. She has appeared on Oprah & Joan Rivers, and many other shows. The founding president of the Association for the study of Dreams, Delaney lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From the Back Cover

History, insight, technique, instruction, internationally renowned dream expert Gayle Delaney offers everything you need to know about dreams in the very first contemporary dream handbook to offer an all-in-one resource. "All About Dreams" is a must-have for every curious dreamer who has ever wondered at the real meaning of dreams, why we have them, how to interpret them, why they are important, and how to actively use them in waking life.

Dipping into the ancient well of dream history, Delaney whisks us along on a brief and fascinating tour of the roots of our thinking about dreams'from Aristotle's empirical thinking to Freud's sex-centric worldview; from Egyptian and Greek perspectives to Jewish beliefs drawn from the Old Testament; from Hindu and Chinese traditions to modern Western ideas'and merges these historical, philosophical, religious, and psychological threads with today's newest thinking about dream interpretation and the latest techniques being used around the world.

A masterful survey of the fact and fiction surrounding dreams, as well as a hands-on guide to working directly with your own powerful dream images, "All About Dreams" combines the insight and expertise of one of the world's foremost authorities on dreams and dreamwork to show you how to:

interpret, understand, and direct your dreaming to solve specific problems;

master amazingly effective tools for self-interpretation, including Delaney's own revolutionary self-interviewing technique;

organize your own dream study group;

use the insights and ideas you get from your dreams to make a real difference in your life.Complete with a resource list of the best dream books, tapes, videos, study groups,and Web sites, this lively and thorough volume is the ultimate guide to the mysterious and alluring realm of nocturnal fantasies, nightmares, and visions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bravo Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062514113
• ISBN 13: 9780062514110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320