The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine

by Edward Tick PhD, Stephen Larsen (Foreword by)

Overview

Asklepios was the gentle Greek god of healing. Like Christ, he was said to have walked the earth performing miracle cures. His medicine was practiced by priests who interpreted patients' dreams in which the god gave advice. Dr. Tick's classic work explores dream-healing techniques from this ancient tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780835607995
Publisher:	Quest Books
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Edition description:	1ST QUEST
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 30 years, he is a nationally recognized authority on the psychological, spiritual, historical, and cultural aspects of war in the healing of PTSD. Dr. Tick specializes in transformational work with war veterans, survivors of severe trauma, and all those in need of deep psycho-spiritual healing. Dr. Tick has extensively studied both classical Greek and Native American healing traditions and successfully integrates those methods into his modern clinical practice. A writer, educator, and overseas journey guide, Dr. Tick holds an M.A. in psychology from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a clinical member and has held various officer positions with the American Academy of Psychotherapists and the American Holistic Medical Association, as well as many other professional organizations. He is also an ordained interfaith minister. Dr. Tick began treating Vietnam veterans in psychotherapy in 1979 before PTSD was a diagnostic category. Since that time, he has treated veterans and survivors of WWII, the Holocaust, Korea, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, Central American conflicts, Lebanon, the Balkan wars, the Irish civil and religious wars, the Greek Civil War, the Middle East conflicts, and the Iraq War, among others. He has also served as a consultant to numerous community, church, and organizations on the treatment of veterans and the training of staff for such work. Dr. Tick's extraordinary work takes him on healing journeys, spiritual tours, lectures, educational classes, and workshops around the globe. He is cofounder of the Sanctuary International Friendship Foundation, a nonprofit agency that directs and raises funds for projects to help heal war-torn Viet Nam. He resides in Albany, New York, where he and his wife Kate Dahlstedt are directors of Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul and Soldier's Heart®, a non-profit program designed to create veterans' safe-return programs in communities across the country. Dr. Tick's last two books are entitled The Golden Tortoise: Viet Nam Journeys and The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine (Quest 2001). His first book, Sacred Mountain: Encounters with the Vietnam Beast, was published in 1989.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xix
Part I	Invocation and Call
1	The Women of Troy: Epidauros, 1987	3
Part II	Myth, Method, and Meaning
2	The Myth of Asklepios	17
3	Dream, Myth, and Ritual	35
Part III	An Asklepian Pilgrimage
4	Conscious Mythmaking	43
5	Birthplace and Homeland: Trikka, 1300 BCE	47
6	Healing Sanctuary: Epidauros, 600 BCE	55
7	Earth-Walking Savior: Korinth, 480 BCE	61
8	Raising the Dead: Troizen, 480-428 BCE	69
9	Beautiful and Besieged: Athens, 429-420 BCE	77
10	The Father of Medicine: Kos, 400 BCE	87
11	To the Imperial City: Rome, 291 BCE	99
12	Harmonizing Science and Spirit: Ephesus, 100 CE	107
13	The Ancient Psychiatrist: Pergamum, 150-170 CE	115
14	Asklepios and Christ: The Roman Empire, 300-500 CE	133
Part IV	Asklepian Healing Today
15	A Saint in the Mountains: Krete, 2000	149
16	Modern Dream Healing	155
17	The Ship of Death and Life: Greece, 1995	173
18	"What Dream the God Has Sent": Pergamum, 1998	189
19	Sokrates on Krete: Lebena, 2000	205
20	The Snake Returns	217
21	Asklepios Makes House Calls	231
22	The Future of Asklepian Medicine	241
Part V	Benediction
23	The Blessing of Asklepios: Pergamum, 1998	263
	Notes	267
	Index	285