Product Description

This inspiring new book covers the practical side of dream interpretation during the therapeutic consultation. It aids the understanding of sleep and dreams in a scientific context and provides and introduction to the biological and evolutionary foundations of sleep, dreams and dream interpretation, supporting its use in professional counseling.

"Dream Interpretation as a Psychotherapeutic Technique" covers cultural, historical and religious foundations of dreams and dream interpretation, and gives an overview of the various dream interpretation theories.

Psychotherapists and psychiatrists with an interest in dream interpretation will find this guide invaluable. It will also be of great interest to psychologists, counselors, therapists and general readers.

Includes a foreword by Ernest Hartmann, Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Boston, and Lecturer in! the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University, and former President of the Association for the Study of Dreams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1198140 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 147 pages

About the Author

Frederick L Coolidge is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, USA.

Customer Reviews

The best dream interpretation book I've found
What I hate about dream interpretation books is that so very many of them are fluffy and full of silly dictionaries or completely off the wall theories. Well, this one is the exception to that rule.

This book is based on the integration of three dream interpretation theories from real psychologists: Jung, Freud, and Perls. It covers all aspects of dreaming, including the physical parts of sleep and the sleep cycle, the history of dream interpretation, the major theories and theorists of dream interpretation, and so much more. It's well-written, full of excellent supporting evidence and quotations, and based in real-life experience. This is an amazing book.