Dreamcatching: Every
Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares
by Alan Siegel and Kelly Bulkeley
Random House: Three Rivers
Press ISBN: 0517-88788-6
Dreamcatching is a practical and highly entertaining book that offers parents
a user-friendly guide to the landscape of their children's dreams and nightmares.
Written by two renow
ned
dream researchers and educators, this book uses more than 100 vivid dreams
as examples to show parents how family dream-sharing can stimulate their children's
creative and emotional intelligence and enhance family communication. Exploring
dreams can also help parents detect troubling anxieties and strengthen their
children's emotional resilience to meet life's challenges and crises. Emphasizing
creative approaches to exploring children's dreams, Dreamcatching goes far
beyond a simple how-to book and addresses broader issues such as creativity,
child development, spirituality, violence in the media and society and more
concrete issues such as nightmares and sleep disorders, and helping children
recover from the psychological impact of grief, trauma and transitions. No
other book gives parents such a trustworthy and psychologically sound introduction
to the creativity and wisdom found in their children's dreams. Some of the
intriguing and useful learning experiences in Dreamcatcher include: · Understanding
Common Dream Symbols such as Flying, Falling, Being Chased, Public Nudity,
Failing Exams, Animals and Monsters. Find your family and your child's personal
meanings for common and recurring dreams. · Nightmare Remedies: How you can
helping your child tame the demons of the night including monster and chase
dreams, night terrors, recurring nightmares. Learn playful but effective techniques
for overcoming nightmares and soothing the worries that go with them. · The
Playful Creativity of Children's Dreams: How dreams can be keys to opening
children's imagination and affirming their inner creativity. · First Aid for
Crisis Dreams: Understanding and responding to children's dreams following
divorce, natural disasters, accidents, loss and grief, the birth or adoption
of a sibling. · Dreams and the Spiritual Life of Children: Learn how dream
sharing can help children become aware of their spirituality. A workbook,
with step-by-step instructions for families on remembering and exploring dreams
through many forms of drawing, painting, journal and story writing, drama
and group and dream exhibits and fairs-complete with forms for keeping a dream
catcher's journal. For more information, please contact the authors: Alan
Siegel, Ph.D.: 2607 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705. (510) 527 7929, email:
Dreamsdr@aol.com or Kelly Bulkeley Ph.D.,
226 Amherst Avenue, Kensington CA 94707 (510) 528 0226, email 76633.1555@compuserve.com,
or visit the website at www.dreamcatching.com.
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