Psychoanalysis Arena

The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams

Family and Other Relationship Systems Perspectives

• By Evelyn Duesbury.

Published November 2010

This book will serve as a guide for practicing counselors and therapists to facilitate work with their clients interpreting their dreams in order to reduce and alleviate stress, with a focus on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she…
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Embodiment

Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel

• By Robert Bosnak.

Published March 2007

Did you know that intentional dreaming has been used to solve life's problems? Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel sets out Robert Bosnak's practice of embodied imagination and demonstrates how he actually works with dreams and memories in groups. The book discusses…
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The Dream Experience

A Systematic Exploration

• By Milton Kramer.

Published November 2006

The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional with a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer’s extensive research, along with the findings of others, establishes that dreams are structured, not random, and linked…
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Prelogical Experience

An Inquiry into Dreams and Other Creative Processes

• By Edward S. Tauber, and Maurice R. Green.

Published November 2005

One of the foundational texts of interpersonal psychoanalysis, Prelogical Experience (1959) is a pioneering attempt to elaborate an interpersonal theory of personality that encompasses the nonpropositional, nonverbal dimension of human experience. Prelogical processes, the authors hold,…
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This Art of Psychoanalysis

Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

• By Thomas H Ogden.

Published September 2005

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming…
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A Dream in the World

Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern and Medieval

• By Robin van Lõben Sels.

Published September 2003

How can science and religion co-exist in the modern discipline of psychotherapy? A Dream in the World explores the interfaces between religious experience and dream analysis. At the heart of this book is a selection of dreams presented by the author's patient during analysis, which are compared…
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Dreams

• By C.G. Jung.
• Introduction by Kathleen Raine.

Published October 2001

Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveler, and above all visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures of the twentieth century. A comprehensive compilation of his work on dreams, this popular book is without parallel. Skilfully weaving a narrative that encompasses all…
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The Dream Frontier

• By Mark Blechner.

Published June 2001

The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on psychodynamic theorists and neuroscientific researchers with…
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Who Is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Dream?

A Study of Psychic Presences

• By James S. Grotstein.

Published July 2000

In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential and interrelated psychoanalytic problems: the…
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The Dreamer and the Dream

Essays and Reflections on Gestalt Therapy

• By Rainette E Fantz.

Published May 1998

In this collection of papers and lecturers from the late Rainette Fantz, we witness firsthand the exhilarating possibilities inherent in the Gestalt therapy model. Frantz brings her background in theater to bear on her remarkable work as a therapy and teacher-work marked by delightful imagination,…
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