Although this book is not new, it is one I recommend for all health professionals to read. Written by leading researchers in the International Association for the Study of dreams, it’s a readable summary of 14 different kinds of dreams and visions you might be told in the course of listening to your clients.
The authors give a chapter to each of the main types, including creative, lucid, healing, out-of-body, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, visitation and spiritual dreams. After a general introduction, each chapter presents background information, recent research, new examples and practical guidelines for working with this type of dream.
I find it helpful to know how to recognise the different kinds, and be able to reassure dreamers that the more unusual dream-experiences are not indicating madness, but come within the range of known human experience. They may also carry significant meaning for the dreamer.
Margaret Bowater
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