Healing Dream and Ritual

by Meier, C. a.

• ISBN13: 9783856306298
• ISBN10: 3856306293
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Daimon Verlag

Summary

C. A. Meier investigates the ancient Greek understanding of dreams and dreaming, Antique incubation and concomitant rituals. In this greatly expanded version of his classic work, "Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy" Meier compares Asklepian divine medicine with our own contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches to dreaming. He elucidates how the healing cure was found in the very core of illness itself -- a fact of invaluable significance today in both medicine and psychology. In helping us to recognise the suprapersonal aspects of illness, the dream is shown to reveal a transcendental path to healing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	i
I The Divine Sickness	1	(8)
II Epidaurus	9	(10)
III Asclepius	19	(24)
IV Serapis	43	(6)
V Incubation Ritual in the Sanctuaries of Asclepius	49	(12)
VI The Tholos	61	(16)
VII Incubation at the Oracle of Trophonius	77	(30)
VIII The Mystery of Healing	107	(4)
Epilogue: The Dream in Ancient Greece	111	(16)
Epicrisis: For the Thinking Reader	127	(14)
List of Abbreviations	141	(2)
Table of Dreams, Oracles and Visions from Antiquity	143	(2)
Index of Names	145	(6)
Index of Subjects	151