1st Edition

Embodiment Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel

By Robert Bosnak Copyright 2007
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Did you know that intentional dreaming has been used to solve life's problems? Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel sets out Robert Bosnak's practice of embodied imagination and demonstrates how he actually works with dreams and memories in groups. The book discusses various approaches to dreams, body and imagination, and combines this with a Jungian, neurobiological,... Read more

Bosnak, Prelude. Into the Cave. A Radical Change of Perspective. The Embodying Image. A Display of Method. The Dreaming Brain and Simultaneous Multiplicity in Space. Metabolizing Trauma. The Endogenous Healing Response. Surrender and Dissociation. Kinds of Imagination. Primal Matter and Tincture, the Coloring Agent. Incubation, Art, and Dreaming by Proxy. The Embodied Condition. A Practical Guide to Technique.

Biography

Robert Bosnak is a Dutch Jungian Psychoanalyst who, after having been in private psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 25 years, currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

"Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone with Robert Bosnak's astonishing book, Embodiment, and allow him to accompany you on an exciting journey that is at once physical, spiritual, psychological, and astonishingly compatible with current data from neuroscience and cognitive science. As a working psychoanalyst, I have found this to be so transformational to my work that I can never again say 'It's only a dream'." - Philip M. Bromberg, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA

"I am convinced we should press forward with this lovely, simple, effective discipline which has proven itself with such remarkable results in our Company." - Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

"Drawing on Henry Corbin's Imaginal Realm, as well as on medieval alchemy, scientific complexity theory, East Asian philosophy, postcolonial critique, and above all on three decades intensive work with dreams, Embodiment reveals how humans can relate to the multiple beings alive in each of us. Original and fascinating." - Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, USA