Browsing by Subject "Dreams"

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    Media Review: Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years
    (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2021-12-01) Johal, Arminder; Stahl, Stephanie M.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Dr. Meir Kryger’s Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years, published in 2019, is a book likely to captivate the interests of those in sleep medicine. This book features hundreds of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by various artists. Artwork by Raphael, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Norman Rockwell are among the many found in this book. The intersection between the worlds of science, religion, and art are all explored as each artist expertly depicts the human enthrallment with sleep throughout time.
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    Messages from the Depths: Dreams as Inner Guides on the Path to Trauma Recovery
    (2017) Paavola, Julie; King, Juliet; Misluk, Eileen
    This paper presents a case study about the potential of dreams to mediate traumatic experience using art therapy. It presents the theoretical foundations of dream work according to S. Freud and C. Jung, and art therapy research to support a rationale for using clients' dreams to support trauma recovery. The methodology is from Moon's process for dialogue with a dream (2007) that evokes existential questions that the dream presents. The participant was pre--selected from residents of a domestic abuse shelter who reported a dream that was significant in recovery after a traumatic experience. The findings supported the hypothesis that dreams have the compensatory potential to provide supportive imagery and clues to existential questions confronting the participant, and that attention to this material in therapy was beneficial to the participant. The study concludes that dreams can be an important avenue for clients to experience resilience, process emotion and begin to heal from trauma.