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DREAM WISDOM
UNCOVERING LIFE’S ANSWERS IN YOUR DREAMS
BY ALAN SIEGEL, PH.D.

Dreams are a resource the mind offers every night. This book demonstrates how to use dreams and nightmares as a source of insight 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.
Alan Siegel's 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, Siegel helps 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.

“Alan Siegel is a refreshing and articulate advocate of psychotherapeutic dream analysis. Siegel offers important revelations in this innovative and beautifully researched work"
San Francisco Chronicle

“A uniquely positive look at dreams through the lifespan.”
Robert van de Castle Professor Emeritus University of Virginia and author of Our Dreaming Mind

"This is a wonderful, wise, charming book. Dr. Siegel is one of the world's most skilled and sensitive dream work practitioners and in this book, he gives us the benefits of his more than 30 years working in depth with his own and his client's dreams. Filled with clear, cogent examples, DREAM WISDOM carries the reader along with a stream of insights into particular dreams and into the healing qualities of dreams in general. By organizing dreams around landmark events in waking life, Alan Siegel provides an invaluable key to understanding them. This is a great gift to anyone interested in dreams."
Reverend Jeremy Taylor D. Min. author of Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill

“A brilliantly conceived book” Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Alan Watts Professor at Saybrook Institute and author of Dreamscaping and Dreamwork and Dreamtime.’

"Excellent... This is a book that can be confidently recommended to anyone wanting to draw on the wisdom of their dreams"
The California Psychologist

"This book can change your life if you focus on your dreams as turning points”.
Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective

-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.

DREAM WISDOM teaches how to develop a sense of confidence and expertise in working with your own dreams. The notion that dream work requires an expert analyst is often an unnecessary barrier. Siegel teaches you to work with dreams using your own intuition and self-knowledge. Through examples, suggestions, and exercises, the reader learns how to search for emotional links between turning points she is experiencing and the people, places, activities and feeling in her dreams. This practical and highly entertaining book offers a deep source of guidance for anyone hoping to better deal with times of personal crisis or critical change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alan Siegel, Ph.D. is an adult and child psychologist who practices psychotherapy and assessment and is Assistant Clinical Professor, at the University of California, Berkeley. A pioneer in dream work with 30 years of teaching and publishing on dream-related topics, he is a past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and Editor-Emeritus of their magazine, Dream Time. He was the Creative Consultant for the award-winning HBO video, Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepy Time Tales and 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 Associated Press, and the Discovery Channel’s The Power of Dreams series. He lives with wife and two daughters in the Bay Area.

DREAM WISDOM: UNCOVERING LIFE’S ANSWERS IN YOUR DREAMS
BY ALAN SIEGEL, PH.D.
Published by Ten Speed/Celestial Arts: ISBN 1-58761-158-9
For review copies contact Sarah Goracke at (510) 559 1600 ( Sarahg@TenSpeed.com )
E-mail Alan Siegel Ph.D. ( DreamsDr@aol.com ) or call at (510) 903-9595 Fax and Phone

For information or review copies contact Sarah Goracke at Ten Speed Press, PO Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707 (510) 559 1600 or E-mail: Sarahg@TenSpeed.com
To contact Alan Siegel Ph.D. E-mail: DreamsDr@aol.com  or at (510) 903-9595 Fax/Phone
www.dreamwisdom.info