This book is a well written, easy to understand, in-depth, and up to date theoretical overview of dreaming and dream interpretation. This fascinating and informative study examines dream interpretation with a forty-seven year old woman, Ellen E., and how Ellen gained personal insight into her life-experiences, and healing from her childhood emotional wounds. The reader will have the opportunity to gain a clear and fundamental understanding of dreams and dream interpretation. "The author, to me, revealed a landscape of the mind much like an anthropologist would unearth a community through its buried artifacts.well written, good coverage of research and methodologies, excellent examples of dream work and its underused benefit to therapists"-John Laughlin, Ph.D., Westbrook University "Pure Genius.most astutely, the author has been able to bridge gaps in Jungian theory by providing explanatory formulations based on the work of Frederick Perls and the Gestalt psychologists" -J. Kenneth Rabac, Ph.D., The Jung Center, Winter Park, Florida "Learning to understand my dreams is exciting, intriguing, and has brought me closer to my inner-self" -Ellen E