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This multidisciplinary volume examines the cultural and social relevance of dream studies, looking at various ways that the field can contribute to the resolution of the modern West's most troubling social issues. The essays offer novel insights on education, sexual abuse, ecology, crime, race, gender, religion, politics, death, and cross-cultural conflict. The contributors argue that the study of dreams can provide valuable resources to regain a vibrant, trustworthy sense of moral and spiritual orientation in life.
"The book is timely, and introduces a whole new generation of serious dream workers unfettered by ideological loyalties and regressive news of the dream. It deals with an important but relatively unexplored dimension of dreaming consciousness. I found the book refreshing and stimulating. I hope it will chart a new direction for dream studies." — Montague Ullman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kelly Bulkeley
I. Dreams and Social Reform
1. Dreams and Social Responsibility: Teaching a Dream Course in the Inner-City
Jane White-Lewis
2. The 55-Year Secret: Using Nightmares to Facilitate Psychotherapy in a Case of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Marion A. Cuddy and Kathryn E. Belicki
3. Seeking the Balance: Do Dreams Have a Role in Natural Resource Management
Herbert W. Schroeder
II. Dreams and Dialogues with "Others"
4. Reflections on Dreamwork with Central Alberta Cree: An Essay on an Unlikely Social Action Vehicle
Jayne Gackenbach
5. Black Dreamers in the United States
Anthony Shafton
6. Sex, Gender, and Dreams: From Polarity to Plurality
Carol Schreier Rupprecht
III. Dreams, Spirituality, and Modernity
7. Traversing the Living Labyrinth: Dreams and Dreamwork in the Psychospiritual Dilemma of the Postmodern World
Jeremy Taylor
8. Invitation at the Threshold: Pre-Death Spiritual Experiences
Patricia Bulkley
9. Western Dreams about Eastern Dreams
Wendy Doniger
IV. Dreams and Critical Reflections on "Our" Culture
10. Political Dreaming: Dreams of the 1992 Presidential Election
Kelly Bulkeley
11. Healing Crimes: Dreaming Up the Solution to the Criminal Justice Mess
Bette Ehlert
12. Let's Stand Up, Regain Our Balance, and look Around at the World
Johanna King
13. Conclusion
Kelly Bulkeley
List of Contributors
Index