The Dream Sharing Sourcebook: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Your Personal Relationships

293 Pages·1998·1.1 MB·English

by  Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras, Peter L. Sheras

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title: The Dream Sharing Sourcebook : A Practical Guide to
Enhancing Your Personal Relationships
author: Koch-Sheras, Phyllis R.; Sheras, Peter L.
publisher: NTC Contemporary
isbn10 | asin: 1565658795
print isbn13: 9781565658790
ebook isbn13: 9780071401913
language: English
subject Dreams, Interpersonal relations.
publication date: 1999
lcc: BF1099.I58K63 1999eb
ddc: 154.6/3
subject: Dreams, Interpersonal relations.
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title: The Dream Sharing Sourcebook : A Practical Guide to
Enhancing Your Personal Relationships
author: Koch-Sheras, Phyllis R.; Sheras, Peter L.
publisher: NTC Contemporary
isbn10 | asin: 1565658795
print isbn13: 9781565658790
ebook isbn13: 9780071401913
language: English
subject Dreams, Interpersonal relations.
publication date: 1999
lcc: BF1099.I58K63 1999eb
ddc: 154.6/3
subject: Dreams, Interpersonal relations.
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The Dream Sourcebook: A Guide to the Theory
and Interpretation of Dreams
by Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras and Amy Lemley
The Dream Sourcebook Journal
by Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras and Peter L. Sheras,
with Amy Lemley

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The Dream Sharing Sourcebook
A Practical Guide To Enhancing Your Personal Relationships
By
Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras, Ph.D.
and Peter L. Sheras, Ph.D.
LOWELL HOUSE
LOS ANGELES
CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
CHICAGO

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Koch-Sheras, Phyllis R.
The dream sharing sourcebook : a practical guide to enhancing your
personal relationships / Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras and Peter L. Sheras.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56565-879-5
1. Dreams. 2. Interpersonal relations. I. Sheras, Peter L.
II. Title.
BF1099.I58K63 1998
154.6'3dc21 97-49315
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Text design: Laurie Young
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To our wonderful children, Daniel and Sarah,
and the future of their relationships

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Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge the many people who have been so helpful and supportive in the preparation of this
book and the exploration of the dreams contained in it. Special thanks to our colleague, friend, and adviser, Amy
Lemley, whose support and clear thinking saved us on many occasions. Thanks also to our wonderful children,
Daniel and Sarah, our living dreams, for their generous gifts of dreams and energy.
Thanks are due to our many friends who generously provided material from their sleeping and waking dreams
used in this book. They include Russell and Linda Childs, Karen and Lily Collins, Myrna and Dick Corson,
Sharon Davie, Linda Gonder-Frederick and Jeff Frederick, Jane Heblich, Vialla and Hugo Mendez, Karen and
Howard Pape, Raven Ruffner, and Grace and Burt Zisk. Thanks also to Elizabeth Zintel, who shared her visions
and dreams with us before her untimely passing last year.
We are indebted to those who helped us with the development of ideas in this book, including Ronald Fineman,
Kathryn Korbon, E. Ann Hollier, Brooke Jones, and all the contributors to Dream On , our friends in Couples
Coaching, and those hundreds of people with whom it has been our privilege to work over the past twenty years.
Fond appreciation is also given to Janice Koch-Libbin and Michael Sheras for their constant support with the
variety of things needed to complete this book.
We are also grateful to each other; our relationship was the fuel for this work. We acknowledge our love and need
for one another and the abiding commitment we share to our couple and our family.

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Contents
Preface xi
Chapter One
The Wake-up Call 1
Chapter Two
There's More Than One Way to Dream 17
Chapter Three
Learning the Three Rs of Dreamwork: Recalling, Recording, and Reviewing Your
Dreams 35
Chapter Four
Couples and Dreaming: Creating a "Dream Couple" 61
Chapter Five
Commitment: Creating Couple Visions Through Dreamwork 79
Chapter Six
Cooperation: Developing Teamwork Through Dreaamwork 105
Chapter Seven
Communication: Using Dreams to Enhance Couple Sharing 131

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Chapter Eight
Community: Sharing Your Couple 159
Chapter Nine
Family Dreamwork: Parents and Siblings 175
Chapter Ten
Family Dreamwork: Children 201
Chapter Eleven
Expanding the Horizons of Dreamwork 233
Chapter Twelve
Waking Up to a New Future Together 261
Bibliography 277
Index 279

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