Reading On Dreams

Recommended Reading on Dreams

Saturday, 03 July 2004

James Strohfeldt Recommends:

Private Myths, Dreams and Dreaming. Anthony Stevens

The Way of the Dream. Marie-Louise von Franz and Fraser Boa

The Dream and the Underworld. James Hillman

Man and his Symbols. ed. Carl Jung

Understanding Dreams. Mary Ann Mattoon

The Anatomy of the Psyche. Edward Edinger

Sidney Bloch Recommends:

The Freud Reader.By Peter Gay with an excellent section on dreams.

Rob Shields Recommends:

Dare I suggest "The interpretation of dreams" by Sigmund Freud.

You could also try "Dreams and the search for meaning" by Peter O'Connor(Australian Jungian psychologist)

Cheers,

Rob

David Leonard Recommends:

I found Fritz Perls approach to dream interpretation which he outlined withexamples, if I recall correctly, in "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim" extremelyuseful.

Regards

David

Ron Speilman Recommends:

The following three titles may be of interest:Dream Analysis by Ella Freeman Sharpe ... quite old and maybe hard to locate.

Essential Papers on Dreams edited by Melvin Lansky

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Theory of Dreams by Humberto Nagera.

There are of course many psychoanalytic papers on dreams and dreaming in the

major journals:

(1997) The Art And Science Of Dream Interpretation: Isakower Revisited. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 45:891-905Morton F. Reiser

(1995) New Findings On The Neurological Organization Of Dreaming: Implications For Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Quarterly, 64:43-67Mark Solms

(1992) A Research-Based Reconsideration of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Dreaming.

J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 40:531-550 Ramon Greenberg, M.D. , Howard Katz, M.D. , Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D. and Chester Pearlman, M.D.

Regards,

Ron Spielman

Anne Marie Swann Recommends:

"The Art and Science of Dream Interpretation: Isakower Revisited." Morton F. Reiser-JAPA, 1996

Jung, CG- Man and His Symbols-New York: Dell, 1968

Sanford, John A. â€œDreams: Godâ€™s Forgotten Languageâ€ â€“Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1968

Erich Fromm- The Forgotten Language-New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1951

YorkandLondon?

Winson, Jonathan-"The Meaning of Dreams" Mysteries of the Mind, November, 1990

Warm regards,

Anne-Marie

Leon Petchkovsky Recommends:

Harry HUNT's "Multiplicity of Dreams" is THE definitive scholarly overview, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm speaking as a Jungian Analyst Supervisor, who has published articles on the subject.

Harry's book was first published in the late 80's, but there's been a recent reprint (available on Amazon.com). Seriously scholarly, non-sectarian, up to date with the bio-science, but also with the various anthropological/socio-cultural treatments of the subject.....should be compulsory reading for any analytic trainee in any school/tradition, any psychotherapy training that looks at dreams and dreaming, and anyone interested in working with Indigenous Australian culture.

In psychiatric training, it would be a wonderful antidote for the crass, dumbed down, pseudo-"evidencebased" psychopharm industry and "manualisation" driven ideology that rules currently. Human life is morethan the twitches in the sack of chemicals that the current model allows.

You won't earn any exam-passing Brownie points.

Cheers and joy.

Leon