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

Ed Tick unites a scholar's knowledge with a psychotherapist's insight and compassion. Like the author of The Iliad, he has the voice of incantation and high poetry.. "---from the foreword by Stephen Larsen, Ph. D. Putting soul back into healing, this book paves the way for a truly holistic medicine. The Greek god Asklepios was revered throughout the ancient world for the miraculous healings he accomplished during his patients' dreams. The salutary results are well documented in classical literature and in thousands of recorded fragments and inscriptions. For two decades, Dr. Edward Tick has researched and applied this age-old art in contemporary settings. Now he leads us through myth and history on an imaginal pilgrimage based on actual journeys he has made with clients to ancient healing sites. He also provides techniques we can use anywhere, without the help of specialists. His radical model shows how a consulting room, hospital, or any place of rest can be a haven for the recovery of the whole person. A review in Dream Time the Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, concludes with "The Practice of Dream Healing is many different books woven into one fascinating whole: travelogue, personal journey, historical narrative, mythological study, psychological inquiry. As travel writing and personal narrative, it is compelling and enjoyable to read; as historical, psychological, and philosophical inquiry, it has much to offer contemporary dreamworkers and others in the healing professions."

300 pages

About the author: Ed Tick, Ph.D., is, first and foremost, a transformational healer. He is also a mythologist, psychotherapist, poet and writer, educator, and overseas journey guide. He holds an M.A. in psychology from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Tick 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. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 30 years, Tick specializes in extensive and innovative work with survivors of severe trauma and violence — particularly combat war veterans — sexual and substance abuse victims, those with severe mental and emotional disorders, men's issues and deeply rooted psycho-spiritual healing. In all of his work, Tick applies his own innovative model of PTSD treatment based on worldwide research of spirituality, mythology and war/the warrior archetype, in order to develop a new, broadened and strengthened psycho-spiritual identity. Tick is a nationally recognized expert on the psychological, spiritual, historical and cultural aspects of war, the Vietnam Era, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. He 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 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 consultant to numerous community, church and veterans organizations on the treatment of veterans and the training of staff for such work. His remarkable work had taken him on healing journeys, spiritual tours, lectures, educational classes and workshops around the globe, and even to the position of co-founder of the Sanctuary International Friendship Foundation, a non-profit agency that directs and raises funds for projects to help heal war-torn Viet Nam. As an expert in both the classical Greek and Native American traditions, Tick’s last book is fittingly titled,The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine(Quest Books 2001). In addition toWar and the Soulwhich Quest is releasing this November, Tick will be releasing a book of prose and poetry based on his healing journeys to Viet Nam titled,The Golden Tortoise: Viet Nam Journeys, which Red Hen Press will publish later this year. For more information on Tick and his remarkable work in transformative healing, visit his Web site atwww.mentorthesoul.com.