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Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel 1st Edition

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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, relational and cultural analysis. The author's fascination with dreams, the most absolute form of embodied imagination, has caused him to travel all over the world. From his research he concludes that while dreaming everyone everywhere experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space while the dreamer is convinced of being awake; it is after waking into our specific cultural stories about dreaming that the widely differing attitudes towards dreams arise. By taking dreaming reality, not our waking interpretation of it, as the model for imagination, this book creates a paradigm shock and produces methods which can be applied in a wide variety of cultural settings.

Through detailed case studies, professionals and students will find thorough discussions of:

    • ways to flashback into dreams and memories while in a hypnagogic state of consciousness
    • the practice of embodied imagination and its profound physical effects
    • psyche as a self-organizing multiplicity of selves
    • the nature of subjectivity
    • the body as a theatre of sense memories
    • the limitation of reason
    • the process of dissociation
    • the treatment of trauma

    This book discusses a variety of techniques which may be applied by health professionals to their patients and clients. It will also be of particular interest to Jungian and relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists, as well as to artists, actors, directors, writers and other individuals who wish to explore the creative imagination.

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    1. ISBN-10
      0415404347
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      978-0415404341
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    4. Publication date
      March 29, 2007
    5. Language
      English
    6. Dimensions
      6.14 x 0.35 x 9.21 inches
    7. Print length
      152 pages
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    "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

    About the Author

    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.

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    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (March 29, 2007)
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415404347
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415404341
    • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.35 x 9.21 inches
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    ROBERT BOSNAK grew up in Holland, trained in Switzerland, and has studied alchemy for over 40 years. He is a noted Jungian psychoanalyst with a practice in Los Angeles, and is the author and editor of 7 books of non-fiction in the fields of dreams, health, and creative imagination. His bestselling A Little Course in Dreams was translated into a dozen languages. He developed a method called 'embodied imagination' used widely in psychotherapy and applied worldwide to a variety of creative endeavors. The Red Sulphur saga is his first published work of fiction. He lives in the mountains of Santa Barbara.

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    Tom
    5.0 out of 5 stars A review stated this was not an introductory text. ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016
    A review stated this was not an introductory text. I think that's redundant and misleading. If one is a student of psychology, psychotherapy, drama theory, sociology, archeology, or a well read citizen of antiquity and it's legacy, this is a compelling read. This is a well written book and it conveys something crucial about humans that has been largely ignored: learning by mimesis/mimicry; as well as the 'phenomenological encounter' or immersion in an-other...an experience where subject and object are blurred in a sort of possession/trance. We learn how this primal method is actually present in many forms of art, therapy, and life. Further, we read how this capacity leads to a more sophisticated method of operating in the creative/therapeutic arts. Far from being esoteric, this experience is presented with clear explanation and examples from the author's work.

    If you've come to this text for some reason, I wouldn't pass it up. Hopefully you can find it for a reasonable price...It's a true bummer it seems to be out of print.
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    Jan Lelie
    3.0 out of 5 stars Who do you feel in your own body?
    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2008
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    Robert Bosnak combines his experiences from all over the world. His approach of dreams, active imagination and embodiment is interesting. He also weaves in the relevant literature - Jung, James LeDoux, Damasio. For me, the book was clear, but I and the others of my reading group had problems finding what it is about. His main issues are 'hidden' in the anecdotes and extensive anecdotes. It may be of interest when you're need some new angles on experiencing dreams and imagination. Not a beginners manual.
    (I bought the paperback)
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    Oneirophile
    4.0 out of 5 stars Caveat emptor
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2008
    I respect Robert Bosnak's work with dreams and found Embodiment to be worthwhile, but felt resentment at having paid $90 for 142 pages of text--with no color plates or handmade endpapers that might justify the high cost. Before posting a comment, I emailed the publisher and learned that the $90 version is aimed at libraries. The editorial assistant said that there is a paperback version for $28.95, but I don't see it on Amazon.
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    Zazou
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Original and Informative
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022
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    I have a degree in Somatic Psychology, that I was working on prior to this book being written. I would have given anything to read this then. Beautiful and effective work for therapists, the writing itself is superb. Anyone interested in healing, whether themselves or others, will benefit from this book.
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    aella
    1.0 out of 5 stars Insoddisfacente
    Reviewed in Italy on December 5, 2014
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    Pur essendo scritto da uno psicanalista junghiano questo libro non insegna nulla, parla solo delle sue esperienze che defenirei paranormali, è tempo òperso leggerlo.
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