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There are countless resources being freely offered right now to help us all manage the stress and trauma of COVID-19. This article offers some …
Dreamwork for Yourself: Syllabus, March/April 2020 This pilot course will take you on a journey, via your dreams, deep into your inner world. …
This is a sample of one of the written prompts for the course, a free offering to give you a sense of how to …
Dreams are invaluable allies in our relationship with ourselves, but for most people, they seem like a nonsensical mystery, or they are barely ever …
Is your inner life getting lost in the fray? Are you feeling overwhelmed with information, tasks and all the shiny objects that bombard us …
By Dr. Leslie Ellis The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of my recent book which outlines 4 excellent reasons to work …
What matters is that the therapist is another human person who responds, and every therapist can be confident that he can always be that. …
There is a well-established link in the sleep research literature between nightmares and suicide. Nightmares have been firmly established as a predictor of both …
In our lives, and in our clinical practice, we have all encountered the inner critic, and it can be a true impediment to connecting …
A brief review of Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption by Donald Kalsched (Routledge, 2013) In his book …
The following is a brief review of some key concepts from Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges & Deb Dana, Eds., Norton, 2018). …
This article is an excerpt from A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy by Dr. Leslie Ellis (Routledge, 2019) The working model of the unconscious …
In my book, A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy, I devote a chapter to the current scientific theories about dreaming and how these relate …
If you are like most therapists, you may dabble in dreamwork but without much confidence. Most often, it is your clients, not you, who …
I was asked recently to recommend some books for new therapists. I offered my favorites, Irvin Yalom’s The Gift of Therapy, Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, …
In Angela’s dreams, there was always a similar theme. In them, she was climbing a mountain, an impossibly-steep slope that seemed to tower ever-higher …
Many therapists I am teaching to work with dreams have expressed hesitation in working directly with their clients’ most challenging nightmares. They express a …
There are varying schools of thought about whether we can benefit from dreams even if we don’t work with them. At one end of …
In the last couple of posts, I wrote some suggestions about working with your own dreams, and now I’m going to give you a …
In the last post, I introduced a few ways to work with your own dreams: by writing them down and journaling about your impressions …
I’m feeling celebratory because yesterday I pressed ‘SEND’ on the very last step in writing my book on the clinical use of dreams. Happy …
Taken together, the nightmare studies presented at the recent (June 2019) conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) offer compelling …
Welcome to Demystifying Dreams! I will begin by stating that to resolve most questions about dreams is an impossible task. Although we understand more now than …
