Recommended Reading
Other topics:
Dreamwork
Diamonds of the Night, The Search for Spirit in Your Dreams, James Hagan.
PageMill Press, 1997.
As the author says in the introduction, “This is a book for
ordinary people, people who do not have a doctorate degree, but who will read
and understand. For that reason, the book has been written in plain language,
with brevity, without footnotes, and with as little scientific language as possible.”
A valuable book for anyone interested in doing dream work.
Every Dreamer’s Handbook, A Step-by-step Guide to Understanding and
Benefiting from your Dreams, Will Phillips. Kensington Books, 1994.
Phillips
takes the mystery and anxiety out of studying your own dreams, bless his heart.
Simple enough for a twelve year old, effective enough for anybody.
Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch. Riverhead Books, New York, 2000.
The
author has collected dream experiences from all sorts of cultures, from all over
the world. He primarily focuses on “big dreams,” the ones that change your life if
you heed them, but there’s also a helpful section on how our shadows affect our
dreams. Interesting reading, thought provoking material.
Inner Work, Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth,
Robert Johnson. HarperSan Francisco, 1986.
Johnson offers an accessible,
four-step approach to dream work that he developed during his practice as a
Jungian analyst, and maintains that people can do dream work on their own
by proceeding consciously and carefully through these steps. For the truly
courageous, he also offers a four-step procedure for practicing active imagination,
with appropriate warnings.
New Directions in Dream Interpretation, Edited by Gayle Delaney. State
University of New York Press, 1993.
Seven modern approaches to dream
interpretation described by the practicing psychologists and psychiatrists who use
them. Written for the profession, but also readable for us lay folk.
Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom
of the Unconscious, Jeremy Taylor. Warner Books, 1992.
Taylor is a co-founder
of the Association for the Study of Dreams. This book includes techniques for
working with groups, for improving dream recall, for working by oneself, and a
list of recommended books for further study.