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Wisdom of the Heart: Working With Women’s Dreams

Author: Karen A. Signell

“Those with no previous experience in [dream] analysis receive foundational experience on how to capture dreams and understand Jungian vocabulary. But even experts in dream symbolism will gain from Signell’s provocative analyses of dreams that betoken the traumas of one’s life and help confront aggression, transform anger, and explore sexuality... Highly recommended.”
—Booklist (starred review)

“Wisdom of the Heart is a good example of the kind of guide used for training in dreamwork....The ‘Relationship’ chapter addresses...the pitfalls facing women in their relationships... The Mermaid archetype is used here to represent the dilemma...
—Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books, 1999.

“... [A] book that I personally took great pleasure in reading because it spoke to me about my own patients, about myself, and about my soul...”
—Psychological Perspectives

“Signell’s book stands out because it makes available Jungian approaches and insights in an organic way... Moreover, she listens to what women’s dreams say about the psychology of women...[I]t stimulated my thoughts and feelings about what I do generally with clients/analysands and about my personal concerns as a woman. Signell has connection with a depth of experience that speaks well for her work as an analyst/therapist.”
—The San Francisco Jung Institute Journal

Karen Signell, PhD, ABPP, Jungian Analyst, Teacher and author of numerous articles.
Retired from clinical practice

Table of Contents

Price: $16.00
Book Type: Soft Cover
Pages: 326
ISBN: 0880641886
Publisher: 1998 Fromm International

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Table of Contents

Forword by Riane Eisler
Acknowledgments
List of Dreams
A personal Preface
Introduction: Dreams as a Source of Feminine Knowledge

Chapter 1 Understanding Dreams

Working With Your Own Dreams
The Language of the Unconscious
Archetypes In Women’s Dreams

Chapter 2 Early Glimpses of the Self: The Treasure Within

Chapter 3 Dealing with Aggression: Vulnerability, Self-Protection, and Strength

Responding to Men’s Aggression
Untangling From the Mother’s Anger and Aggression
Encountering Inner Feminine Figures of Aggression

Chapter 4 The Shadow: The Hidden Side

Personal, Cultural, and Archetypal Shadow
Dreams Exposing the Negative Shadow
Dreams Revealing the Positive Shadow

Chapter 5 Relationship: The Discerning Heart
Love and Its Beginnings
Difficulties and Choices in Relationships
The Choice: To Sustain or End a Relationship

Chapter 6 Sex: The Other Half of the Garden

Sexual Issues in Women’s Dreams

Chapter 7 The Wise Heart

Missing Elements in the Development of Wholeness and Wholeheartedness
Accepting the Gift From the Wise Old Woman
Archetypal Changes

Notes
References
Resources
Recommended Books
Index

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