The Art of Dreaming: Creative Tools for Dream Work - Hardcover

Mellick, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517222418 ISBN 13: 9780517222416

Publisher: Gramercy, 2003

Synopsis

Explore your subconscious life through understanding your dreams. Tame your nightmares through understanding them too. More than fifty activities--many of them can be done in just five to fifteen minutes--will guide you through a fascinating process of self exploration. Learn different ways interpret your dreams and how to choose the right one for a particular dream. With carefully chosen creative tools--paint, words, clay, dance, drama, masks--you will be able to uncover the deep and essential messages your dreams are sending you.

About this title

About the Author:

Poet, artist, and writer Jill Mellick, Ph.D., is the coauthor of The Worlds of P'otsunu, and author of The Natural Artistry of Dreams. She travels and teaches internationally, focusing on the use of the arts for psychospiritual dimensions and has been in private practice for many years as a Jungianoriented clinical psychologist and registered expressive arts therapist. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

From Library Journal:

Ever wondered what that bizarre dream is trying to tell you? Mellick, a clinical psychologist and registered expressive arts therapist, details a multitude of ways to decipher your dreams. A firm believer in subjective dream interpretation, she describes visual, vocal, and theatrical methods for cracking imagery. Examples include writing out dreams in haiku form, making masks of figures from your dreams, and acting out dreams. There's also a chapter that deals exclusively with nightmares and how to uncover their meanings using the aforementioned means, though the thought of reliving them long enough to work them out is off-putting. New Agey, yes, but the insights some of Mellick's patients gained from their dreams ring true. Public libraries with a large spiritualist patron base would do well to purchase this.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gramercy
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0517222418
• ISBN 13: 9780517222416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224