Patricia L. Garfield is an American academic specializing in the study of
dream
A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...
s, specifically the cognitive processes underpinning them.
She is the author of 10 books covering a broad range of dream topics. These topics include:
nightmare
A nightmare, also known as a bad dream, Retrieved 11 July 2016. is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety or great sadness. The dream may contain situations of d ...
s, children’s dreams,
healing
With physical trauma or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repairing of damaged tissue(s), organs and the biological system as a whole and resumption of (normal) functioning. Medicine includes the process by which the cells i ...
through dreams and dream-related
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
. Her best-known work is “Creative Dreaming.”
Originally published in 1974 it was revised and reprinted again in 1995. She holds a
Ph.D
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...
in psychology from
Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...
.
Garfield is one of the six co-founders of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), originally called the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD).
The IASD is a
non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the “pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.” Garfield was the President of the ASD from 1998 to 1999.
Works
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* ''Mourning Dove: Dream Poems,'' Numina Books, 2007.
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* – Non-fiction winner of the 2002 Parents' Guide Media Award, nominated for the Young Hoosier's Book Award 2004-2005
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* ''Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams to Develop Creativity, Overcome Fears, Solve Problems, and Create a Better Self,'' Simon & Schuster, first printed in 1974, reprinted with 19 domestic printings and nine foreign editions in 1976. Revised and reprinted in 1995. – Psychology Today book club alternate selection
* ''The Healing Power of Dreams,'' Simon & Schuster, 1991, with two foreign editions.
* ''Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams,'' Ballantine Books, 1988.
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* ''Your Child's Dreams,'' Ballantine Books, 1984, three foreign editions.
* ''Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala,'' Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979, one foreign edition, Prentice Hall, 1989, trade edition.
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References
External links
International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) websiteThe Center for Creative Dreaming
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American non-fiction writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women