The Dreamlife of Families: The Psychospiritual Connection
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MQCK5NY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 465 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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He explains how the dreamlife of a family can be viewed as a shared field or hologram, where each family member is enfolded into the dreams of the other members. Our dreams also reflect the complex connections of our unconscious minds with those of our families and close friends, connecting us through our dreams to loved ones near and far, living and passed on.Integrating traditional dream analysis with family psychology, clinical science, and parapsychology, Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, details how our personal unconscious is interwoven into our larger family unconscious. He reveals how dreams can be healing factors as well as diagnostic signals, detailing how dreamwork can aid in both family and couples therapy.Showing how our family’s dreamlife connects us to our ancestors and weaves us into the messages we send to our children’s children, the author offers an opportunity to identify personal and family patterns, heal our psychospiritual selves, and grow our understanding of our own minds.. How our unconscious
The author of several books, including Dark Light Consciousness, he is currently in private practice at the Brain Analysis and Neurodevelopment Center in Hadley, Massachusetts. Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and former director of the behavioral medicine program at the University of Massachu
Bynum writes with a level of scholarly sophistication such that dream psychologists, family therapists, and other clinicians will learn much from the book. Bynum explores the world that lives between private and public space--the unconscious of the family. Fascinating read for the professional and lay reader.” (Lynn Hoffman, ACSW, author of Foundations of Family Therapy)“This book guides us to true connectedness in the family. He helps us recognize the vital function of ‘crisis telepathy,’ in which we receive alerts about emergency situations that prepare us to handle them and sometimes to contain them. He gives us the science of the dreaming brain while recognizing that the brain is within the mind. Bynum grounds his study of family dreams in an understanding of the vital role of dreaming in human evolution. This is the essential good sense of The Dreamlife of Families, which careful