Dreamscaping : New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others

by Stanley Krippner (Editor), Mark Robert Waldman (Editor)

In this rich collection, the first in Roxbury Park's New Visions anthology series, editors Stanley Krippner and Mark Waldman bring together leading authorities on dreams, providing readers with many innovative methods for working with themselves, their partners, and groups. Readers will learn how to better recall their dreams, construct dream narratives, dialogue with characters in their dreams, keep a dream journal, and process recurrent dreams and nightmares.Dreamscaping also explores exciting new developments in dreamwork theory, with an eye on spiritual and psychological growth.

Genres: Psychology

296 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

Dr. Stanley C. Krippner Ph.D. is an executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland, California. He was previously director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, and director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. He has written extensively on altered states of consciousness, dream telepathy, and parapsychological subjects.

Reviews

[Christy Baker · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with most anthologies, some pieces of writing are stronger than others in Dreamscaping: New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others. "New", at this writing in 2021, is also a misnomer given that this is a book from 1999 and the handful of contributions that addressed anything computer related are woefully out of date. The strengths in the collection are having a diverse array of styles of dreamwork and approaches. The contributions range from the more academic and philosophical/historical/psychological to the more general how-to and 'new age' or esoteric.

I should note that I read this book, seemingly over a long period, in two phases having misplaced the volume during a move and when I found it again and picked it back up to read again, the world itself as well as my own perspective had shifted radically as a result of the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. There are sections on social justice and cultural awareness as they relate to dreams, which feel especially significant. It does feel, other than an Indigenous voice or two, that the authors don't represent much diversity in their racial/cultural backgrounds, but various spiritual traditions do come through.

In all, I will be keeping this one as a valuable reference work, despite its age, as there is much that is still useful here in approaching and understanding dreams.