Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life's Answers in Your Dreams
by Alan Siegel

About the Author
Alan Siegel, Ph.D., is an adult and child psychologist and a pioneer in dream work with 30 years of teaching and publishing on dream-related topics. He is Assistant Clinical Professor, at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former president of the international Association for the Study of Dreams and Editor-Emeritus of their magazine, Dream Time. His commentaries on post-9-11 nightmares, children's dreams, and dreams interpretation have been featured on NBC's Today Show as well as CNN News, PBS, NPR, the Discovery Channel's The Power of Dreams series, and NBC's prime time special, The Secret World of Dreams. His research and teachings on dreams have been featured in dozens of publications. He lives with wife and two daughters in Berkeley.

Alan Siegel is also the author of Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children’s Dreams and Nightmares (co-authored with Kelly Bulkeley) which was an American Library Association recommended book. He has also contributed a chapter to Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett (Boston: Harvard University, 1994) and wrote the introduction to Dream Work by Clara Hill (Washington: American Psychological Association, 2003).

Book Description (from the publisher)

Dream Wisdom links the exploration of a dream's meaning to our emotional reactions to important life events including coverage of:

• Effective strategies for soothing nightmares and unlocking their healing and transformative powers;
• Childhood dreams and nightmares including recurring dreams, night terrors and strategies to help parents soothe their children’s bad dreams
• Crisis Dreams and nightmares that offer aid at times of accidents, crimes, war and natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and fires
• Healing Dreams to speed recovery from injury and illness
• Grief Dreams for those facing the death of a loved one or other losses
• Relationship Dreams that illustrate how to work out feats of intimacy and commitment
• Dreams of Expectant Mothers and Fathers of conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting
• Separation and Divorce Dreams that offer clues to breaking up, recovering & moving on
• Career Dreams that can help you resolve career conflicts and find new visions and directions in your work
• Midlife Dreams that shed light on the transition from old to new identities

From the Author
We dream every night of our lives—up to 150,000 dreams in a life time. Every dream is a potential source of insight, healing and creativity. DREAM WISDOM provides extensive tools for using dreams and nightmares as a source of self-understanding and practical healing during life’s turning points and crises beginning in childhood and throughout the normal passages of the lifecycle and the unexpected crises and traumatic events.

Our dreams and even our worst nightmares can offer a source of guidance and inner wisdom at critical times in our lives, such as after an accident, illness, loss of a family member, or a traumatic event like the attack on the World Trade Center and during normal life transitions such as forming or ending a relationship, making career changes, during pregnancy, and mid-life crises. DREAM WISDOM (Berkeley: Ten Speed/Celestial Arts, January 2003) explains how dreams can be a source of special insight and healing during life's transitions. Using more that 140 actual "turning-point" dreams as examples, I help the reader to use dreams as a window into hidden needs, unconscious feelings and unexplored wisdom, which can enhance the ability to understand and resolve life's major challenges.

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