Crisis Dreaming: Using Your Dreams to Solve Your Problems

Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D. and Lynne Lamberg present new evidence that dreams are coherent symbolic reflections of the dreamer's mental state. They show that you can learn about yourself and your problems by studying your dreams. Crisis Dreaming provides simple, effective strategies for remembering your dreams and for "rewriting" better dream scripts while you sleep. These tactics are based on Dr. Cartwright's more than 25 years of scientific research. You can carry the insight you gain from your dreams into your waking life to help resolve depression and anxiety brought on by divorce, bereavement, serious illness, job loss, and other crises. In this book, you'll meet people who learned, with Dr. Cartwright's help, to use their dreams to change their daily lives. They gained control over the demons that plagued them. By following the guidelines in this book, you can achieve that goal, too.

Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D., is the chairman of the Department of Psychology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, and director of its Sleep Disorder Service and Research Center. She is an internationally known dream expert.Lynne Lamberg is a veteran medical journalist and editor who specializes in mental health. She is the author or co-author of four other books on sleep topics, including The Body Clock Guide to Better Health (Henry Holt & Co., 2000).