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Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul

Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul

Author: Geri Grubbs
Editor: Valerie Cooper

When we lose a loved one, the experience is simultaneously mythical and personal. Grubbs anchors the mythical aspect of loss in the story of Gilgamesh and the loss of his beloved Enkidu which sets him on a quest for his beloved and the meaning of life. The personal aspect arises in the particular path we take in recovery from loss. Both realms blend in the dream space where we often encounter our lost beloved. Detailing the grieving process and the types of dreams that manifest during its various stages, Grubbs reveals the enormous, positive potential for our individual soul-growth, but we also learn how our lost beloved grows with us in his or her own soul process. She presents four personal stories of people who have worked through their grief by using their dreams and provides practices for readers to catch their dreams, honor them and their departed loved ones, and grow in a healthy direction. Her description of the Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico provides an insightful example of how other cultures accept death as part of the life process.

...A wise guidebook for when tragic loss plunges the living soul into grave liminality and opens the door to transformation. - Murray Stein, Ph.D., author of Transformation: Emergence of the Self

...An inspiration for those who are struggling with the loss of a loved one and for caring friends, family, and those in the "helping professions" who want fresh insights to share with their bereaved clients and patients. - Louise Mahdi, Jungian analyst, editor of Betwixt & Between and Crossroads.

Geri Grubbs is a practicing Jungian analyst, a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and a clinical teaching member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists and the North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology. In 1984, Geri suddenly lost her son, Michael, to an uncanny accident. While in the throes of grief, she religiously recorded her dreams that later, while at the Jung Institute, became the precursor to Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul.

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Book Price: $18.95
Pages: 208
Book Type: Paper
ISBN: 0892540796
Publisher: 2004, Nicolas Hays Inc., Berwick, ME

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Understanding Death
    Chapter 1: By Way of Gilgamesh
    Chapter 2: Liminality and Transcendence
    Chapter 3: Bereavement Dreaming
Part II: Experiencing Death
    Chapter 4: From Dismemberment to Union - My Story
    Chapter 5: Saying Our Goodbyes - A Young Wife's Story
    Chapter 6: The Heroic Dimension - A Mother's Story
    Chapter 7: A Calling from the Inner Room - A Brother's Story
Part III: Celebrating Death
    Chapter 8: Holiday for the Dead
    Chapter 9: Your Bereavement Dream Sanctuary
    Chapter 10: The Herb of Renewal
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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