Healing dream and ritual

Paperbound; v + 160 pp., including 10 black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in footnotes, and two indices. Although this book is designated as a "First Edition," it is effectively a second, English-language edition of C.A. Meier's German language work "Der Traum als Medizin (Einsiedeln; Daimon Verlag; 1985), which itself grew out of Meier's earlier work "Antike Inkubation und moderne Psychotherapie; Studien aus dem C. G. Jung-Institut, Vol. 1" (Zürich; Rasher; 1949). The 1949 work was published in English under the title "Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy (Evanston, IL; Northwestern University Press; 1967). The 1967 English edition, copies of which are also among the Library's holdings, included a Foreword by C.G. Jung that is not included in the subsequent Daimon Verlag editions. Contents: Introduction I. The divine sickness II. Epidaurus III. Asclepius IV. Serapis V. Incubation ritual in the sanctuaries of Asclepius VI. The tholos VII. Incubation at the oracle of Trophonius VIII. The mystery of healing Epilogue: The dream in ancient Greece Epicrisis: For the thinking reader List of abbreviations Table of dreams, oracles and visions from antiquity Index of names Index of subjects