Families that Dream Together: Process-Oriented Family Therapy and Community Based Healing - Paperback

by Gary N. Reiss (Author)

With family life in such crisis, many political leaders say we should somehow go back and impose family values, but there is no going back. Nuclear families are no longer the majority in many Western cultures, and times have changed. Families that Dream Together offers a realistic method for our times that says with families challenged, blended, diverse, spread out across countries and the world, we need a method that helps families find the deeper myths and dreams, roots and wisdom of their connection. Utilizing the tools of Process-oriented Psychology, and indigenous and Shamanic based traditions, Dr. Gary Reiss offers solutions for today's most pressing family problems. He shows how families are together trying to find answers for society's biggest challenges through new methods of inner work and meditation, relationship work, communication, and community based healing.

Author Biography

Gary Reiss, LCSW, Ph.D., Diplomate in Process-oriented Psychology, has been practicing as a therapist for 35 years. He teaches worldwide and is on the faculty of the Process Work Center of Portland. Gary's approach integrates process work with spiritual traditions. He specializes in conflict resolution, family therapy, and working with people in comatose states. His books include Changing Ourselves, Changing the World; Vital Loving; Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict; Angry Men, Angry Women, Angry World; Inside Coma; Dance of Sex, A Dreambody Approach to Love, Sex, and Ecstasy; Families that Dream Together; and Dreaming Money.