Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Washington Post hails Healing Dreams as "a book as wise and healing as a dream...lucid, brave, and trailblazing." The winner of the Nautilus Award for best psychology book 2001, it offers a clear, compassionate understanding of what dreams mean, but also poses a daring question: What do our dreams ask of us, and how might we answer? Dr. Gayle Delaney urges, "Read this book if you want to live a bigger, more vivid life." Dr. Larry Dossey calls it "a new standard in the field of dreams...an uncommon joy," and Joan Borysenko calls it "a watershed in the appreciation of the psyche."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marc Ian Barasch is the author of the award winning trilogy The Healing Path, Remarkable Recovery , and Healing Dreams. They’re acclaimed as landmarks in the quest for wholeness, and as intelligent guideposts to a soulful life. He is a former editor at Psychology Today and Natural Health.

REVIEWS:
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY: "Provocative and thoughtful...one of the most compelling and convincing accounts of the significance of dreams. Healing Dreams is distinguished by the author's reluctance to claim to have the answers—his ego takes a backseat to the evidence—and by the quality of his prose ....Barasch has the gift of making readers want to journey with him."

WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD: "In his fascinating, well-organized and lucid book, Barasch carries us along with him on a brave night journey through the dream world....Healing Dreams is a book for readers who can let go of preconceptions... packed into 11 chapters, which never fail to capture the reader's interest thanks to Barasch's own enthusiasm, his profound research, and his poet's eye for the heart of the matter....The spiritual component of the book as well as its poetic intensity add a depth to a subject that is all too often treated as a sort of parlor game. Healing Dreams, based as it is on over fifteen years of research and on a profound personal investigation, is saved from both New Age psychobabble and a true-believer's pomposity by the quality of the author himself. In these days of journalistic sensationalism and excess, Barasch remains an honest reporter with a respectful tone of gentle inquiry into the mystery of his subject....A book as wise and healing as a dream."

"Barasch is a daring thinker, a mesmerizing writer, and a fully conscious human being who never fails to take us on an eye-opening romp through our own minds. He defies the orthodoxy du jour to show us how our most vivid dreams can have extraordinary meaning for our lives—if we take the courage to look. As with all his writings, Healing Dreams has transformative power; the reader emerges not only illumined, but more intensely alive."
—Hara Marano, Editor, Psychology Today

"Barasch is the Nabokov of contemporary dream writers. The stories of lives dramatically altered by dream experiences startle, and then convince one of the seriousness, richness, and beauty of the mind in sleep. The power to profoundly enhance our appreciation of reality is the gift of dreams and the gift of this fine book. Read it if you want to live a bigger, more vivid life."
—Gayle Delaney, PhD, Founding President, Association for the Study of Dreams

"This book sets a new standard in the field of dreams. Barasch compellingly shows how dreams can provide us with greater wisdom. He also writes like a dream, which makes this book an uncommon joy. Highly recommended."
—Larry Dossey, MD, Healing Words

"In all my years of working in the field of human potential there are perhaps only a dozen books that I would accord the status of 'critically innovative.