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Press Kit Sample Interview Questions for Marc Ian Barasch: What is a Healing Dream? How is it different from an average, everyday, ordinary dream? Is there really such a thing as an average, everyday, ordinary dream? What led you to write a book about Healing Dreams? How can we tell when we're having a Healing Dream? How can a "nightmare" be "healing"? How is your approach to dream interpretation different from other existing methods? How is it different from Freud? From Jung? What is the "dream animal"? What are "shadow dreams"? What is the "shadow figure" in a dream? In your book, you talk about wordplay and puns in dreams. Are you suggesting that our dreams can "tell jokes"? Can you give us an example? Could you recount some particularly interesting dreams and analyze them for us? What is Jung's "active imagination" technique? How can it help us enter the world of a Healing Dream? Do you find dream journals effective? In your book, you talk about how a series of dreams helped you to diagnose, and ultimately heal, a serious personal illness. Can you tell us about that? Freud talks about the "diagnostic power of dreams," that is, the ability of dreams to anticipate a medical problem that has not yet been clinically detected. How is this possible? How can our dreams "know" what is happening in our bodies? If our x-rays, CAT scans, ultrasounds, or blood tests say one thing about a medical condition we are suffering from, but our dreams say another, what should we do? How open are physicians to incorporating dreamwork into conventional diagnosis and treatment? Is it possible--and desirable--to share our dream lives with friends, lovers, and family members? The images in dreams can be so complicated and confusing. How can we know that a dream about, say, seeing a hundred turtles coming out of a shopping mail is, in actuality, a dream telling us that we should be quitting our job or leaving our lover? Are the symbols in Healing Dreams specific to the dreamer? Does a turtle in my dream mean something different from a turtle in your dream? What is the "shared family dreamscape"? Can the dream lives of family members really intersect? How can dreams help us find the right romantic partners--or leave the wrong ones? How can dreams help us find our true calling in life? Can dreams predict the future? What is "lucid dreaming"? You talk about "dreams dreaming us" as much as we dream them. What do you mean by that? Does a dream always have to "mean" something? Contact Author: Healpath@aol.com