The Dictionary of Dream Interpretation

by Gerald Schoenewolf

"Dr. Schoenewolf draws on his vast experience with patients, illustrating with great clarity how clinicians can work with dreams. In the current therapeutic climate of managed care and swift achievement of behavioral goals, Schoenewolf's encyclopedic volume reminds us of the importance of the dream as royal road to the unconscious."
--Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D.

305 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Gerald Schoenewolf is a licensed psychoanalyst and professor of psychology. He is the author of 22 books, most of which are about clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He has also written six novels, a poetic translation of Chinese Daoist philosophy and an illustrated book of poetry, HOLDING ON AND LETTING GO (revised in 2020). He has also written 20 screenplays and written, directed and produced two feature films. Five of his screenplays have won awards at festivals. He lives with his wife, Julia and his parrot and two cats in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

[Amy Capella · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book on dream interpretation I've ever read. There are a lot of books that interpret dreams using superstitious interpretation, i.e., "If a black cat cross you path in a dream is means 7 years bad luck." There are 1,200 dreams interpreted in this book, using a scientific method where each dreams fits the background and associations of the dreamer. There are a slew of famous dream by Donald Trump, Lincoln and Taylor Swift plus dreams by poets, painters, writers, etc. I had a ball looking up dreams by famous people and the dreams from psychoanalytic literature by Freud, Jung and Fromm. Plus there are dreams by personality types such as depressed people, alcoholics and
schizophrenics. I think this is a definite great addition to all libraries, including lay people and professionals.

[Edward Moran · Rating 5 out of 5]

The "references" section at the back of the book is excellent. A unique feature of this book is the "Index of Dreams According to Personality and Physical Characteristics." For example, it has listed such topics as "alcoholic","addictive","cancerous","blind","deaf","heart disordered",etc...