People in every culture of the world--while dreaming--are convinced that they are awake and surrounded by an absolutely real world. Renowned Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak has also found that different characters in dreams have distinct inner lives and emotional attitudes that can be entered. But to learn and experience the deep-felt impact of these separate perspectives we must abandon preconceived interpretations of our dream imagery, and instead become investigators of our dream territory--the landscapes of our soul. Why--and in what ways--do dreams have the power to heal or transform us? Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming relates Bosnak's journey to the Australian outback to probe the nature of dreaming with an Aboriginal spirit doctor. From their conversations and through many absorbing case studies, we learn practical tools and processes to explore the depth of our inner lives, often with profound and startling results. For example, a pregnant woman becomes aware of a hitherto unconscious pain in her body by entering deeply--and with many resisitances--into a dream of a balloon torn to shreds, thus gaining a valuable insight into her emotional and medical condition. A man dreaming of the Addams family participates in a macabre dream experiment with poison and can finally weep about his lover's imminent death from AIDS. In the tradition of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, and Joseph Campbell, Bosnak meditates on the metaphoric, therapeutic, and philosophical implications of dreamwork. This thoughtful and inspiring guide draws on Bosnak's experience as a therapist a traveler, and a dreamer, and is an invitation to look more closely at the meaning of this fundamental and common aspect of human existence -- and to contemplate the astonishing creative capacities of the soul.

Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bosnak, Robert

Psychology & Counseling

DELACORTE PRESS

In Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming Bosnak teaches us to reevaluate our dreams in a new light, and to utilize our dream interpretations as never before. As an outgrowth of his work with Australian aborigines and twenty-five years of leading dream groups internationally, renowned Jungian therapist Robert Bosnak has developed a highly visceral and tactile method of reentering and exploring dreams as real worlds--in a communally accessible, cathartic, and transformative experience. In this book Bosnak offers all the practical tools and techniques with which to explore our inner lives--and to change the way we look at our dreams and ourselves forever.

Religion & Spirituality

Delta

Diagnosed with AIDS, shunned from his church, alienated from society, Christopher P. came to Dr. Robert Bosnak with very clear goals. "I want out," said Christopher wearily, "I don't want this gay life anymore." Using Jungian dreamwork to help Christopher make sense of his life in the face of suffering and loss, the two men explore his dreams, which, as his illness progresses, become increasingly haunted by images of pollution and decay. Carefully recording his dreams in a brown corduroy notebook to analyze in therapy sessions, Christopher confronts the specters of guilt, self-blame, and fear that have enveloped him, and gains a knowledge that will eventually bring him from conflict to clarity, despair to hope. Against his will, Bosnak is swept into Christopher's life and begins to take on his patient's struggle as his own. Originally published as Dreaming with an AIDS Patient, Christopher's Dreams includes a startling new account of hope and living in the future reflected in the dreams of patients using the latest treatments.

Christopher's Dreams: Dreaming and Living With AIDS

Self-Help

Dreams

Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel

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 various approaches to dreams, body and imagination, and combines this with a Jungian, neurobiological, relational and cultural analysis. The author's fascination with dreams, the most absolute form of embodied imagination, has caused him to travel all over the world. From his research he concludes that while dreaming everyone everywhere experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space while the dreamer is convinced of being awake; it is after waking into our specific cultural stories about dreaming that the widely differing attitudes towards dreams arise. By taking dreaming reality, not our waking interpretation of it, as the model for imagination, this book creates a paradigm shock and produces methods which can be applied in a wide variety of cultural settings. Through detailed case studies, professionals and students will find thorough discussions of:    ways to flashback into dreams and memories while in a hypnagogic state of consciousness the practice of embodied imagination and its profound physical effects psyche as a self-organizing multiplicity of selves the nature of subjectivity the body as a theatre of sense memories the limitation of reason the process of dissociation the treatment of trauma  This book discusses a variety of techniques which may be applied by health professionals to their patients and clients. It will also be of particular interest to Jungian and relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists, as well as to artists, actors, directors, writers and other individuals who wish to explore the creative imagination.

Mental Health

Routledge

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 various approaches to dreams, body and imagination, and combines this with a Jungian, neurobiological, relational and cultural analysis. The author's fascination with dreams, the most absolute form of embodied imagination, has caused him to travel all over the world. From his research he concludes that while dreaming everyone everywhere experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space while the dreamer is convinced of being awake; it is after waking into our specific cultural stories about dreaming that the widely differing attitudes towards dreams arise. By taking dreaming reality, not our waking interpretation of it, as the model for imagination, this book creates a paradigm shock and produces methods which can be applied in a wide variety of cultural settings. Through detailed case studies, professionals and students will find thorough discussions of: <ul>
<li>ways to flashback into dreams and memories while in a hypnagogic state of consciousness</li> <li>the practice of embodied imagination and its profound physical effects</li> <li>psyche as a self-organizing multiplicity of selves</li> <li>the nature of subjectivity</li> <li>the body as a theatre of sense memories</li> <li>the limitation of reason</li> <li>the process of dissociation</li> <li>the treatment of trauma</li> </ul>
This book discusses a variety of techniques which may be applied by health professionals to their patients and clients. It will also be of particular interest to Jungian and relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists, as well as to artists, actors, directors, writers and other individuals who wish to explore the creative imagination.

Dreaming With an AIDS Patient: An Intimate Look Inside the Dreams of a Gay Man With AIDS

Biographies & Memoirs

Diane Pub Co.

Dreaming with an Aids Patient

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Shambhala

Bosnak's hands-on manual of Jungian dreamwork shows readers how to remember, record, analyze and understand their dreams. He gives specific guidelines for studying dreams, including exercises in overcoming resistance, exploring imagery, and listening to others' dreams.

A Little Course in Dreams

Shambhala Audio

A hands-on manual for everyone interested in dreams--now in an unabridged miniature edition. This popular guide to Jungian dreamwork gives specific guidelines for studying dreams, including exercises in improving memory of dreams, recording dreams, exploring imagery, understanding symbols, and listening to others' dreams in partnerships and groups.

A LITTLE COURSE IN DREAMS (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

New Age & Spirituality

An extraordinary and prescient conference took place at Salva Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1983. The theme was "Re-Imagining the End of the World." The audience brought together a radical mix of peace activists, clergy, poets, psychoanalysts, military historians, and officers from Newport's Naval War College.Facing Apocalypse presents the brilliant papers of those two days and the force of ten speakers' knowledge and conviction, including Norman O. Brown's radical reflections on Islam, David L. Miller's and Wolfgang Giegerich's unveiling of the theological fantasies hidden in the "end of the world," and James Hillman's invocations of the god Mars.

Facing Apocalypse

LEVERTOV, Denise

Hillman, James

Giegerich, Wolfgang

LIFTON, ROBERT JAY

Miller, David L.

Brown, Norman O.

Macy, Joanna

Watkins, Mary

DOLCI, DANILO

Spring Publications

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