Dreaming Reality by Joe Griffin

Dreaming Reality by Joe Griffin

Until now, why we dream has remained a mystery to science. But, by piecing together the most recent scientific findings and psychological understandings, and adding groundbreaking discoveries of his own, Joe Griffin has revealed what turns out to be a strikingly simple and satisfying explanation for why we dream and why the content of our dreams is so very often bizarre. He and co-author Ivan Tyrrell convincingly show that dreaming is vital for mental health (even though remembering dreams is not) and that the sleep state we associate with dreaming (the REM state) also has crucial importance when we are awake. Indeed, this understanding of the REM state explains not only how our brains construct a model of reality in our minds, but also hypnosis, creativity, and why we develop mental illnesses such as depression and psychosis. Full of fascinating real life stories and dream case histories, Dreaming Reality gives readers the key to understanding their own remembered dreams, explains why day-dreaming was, and is, crucial to human development, and why stories and metaphors have universal appeal. It is a book that will change lives.

The conclusions arrived at in Dreaming Reality are breathtaking, and considering the freedom the reader has to apply them to his or herself, they prove to be astonishingThis book gives such rational explanations that the culminative effect is like turning a light on in a room of shadows. MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE One of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last hundred years. DR FAROUK OKHAI Joe Griffin's key insight...[means that] weekly excavation of your painful past in an attempt to understand your present depression has never seemed so foolish. There is a new king in the sacred grove [of psychology.] FINANCIAL TIMES This book on dreaming is revolutionary in more than one way. Past and sometimes overlooked research is re-evaluated, and a persuasive theory emerges... long overdue, to my mind... an intriguing guidebook. DORIS LESSING A remarkable book that makes compelling reading. Griffin and Tyrrell's adroitly written text challenges traditional views on our knowledge and understanding of the mystifying covert world of human dreams. PROFESSOR TONY CHARLTON A wonderfully fresh and stimulating view of dreaming, evolution and human functioning. Arthur J. Deikman, MD.

Joe Griffin is a research psychologist with graduate and post graduate degrees from the LSE. He has many years experience in psychotherapeutic practice as well as in training psychotherapists in the UK and Ireland. He is also co-author with Ivan Tyrrell of Human Givens: a new approach to emotional health and clear thinking and numerous titles about advances in psychological intervention. Ivan Tyrrell is a writer, psychotherapist and Principal of MindFields College, the only specialist psychology college in the UK which trains over 12,000 NHS and social welfare staff each year on its courses.

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ISBN 10	1899398910
Title	Dreaming Reality
Author	Joe Griffin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Human Givens Publishing Ltd
Year published	2006-12-01
Number of pages	272
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