Books by Daniel Deslauriers
Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers (co-authors)
"A holistic approach to the fascinatin... more Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers (co-authors)
"A holistic approach to the fascinating, multifaceted world of dreams.
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change.
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Papers by Daniel Deslauriers
ReVision, 2023
A narrative inquiry, triggered by a hypnopompic dream, unfolds the social- somatic reality of hea... more A narrative inquiry, triggered by a hypnopompic dream, unfolds the social- somatic reality of heart knowing. This inquiry discloses a complex relational topography within which childhood memories, therapeutic encounter, existential issues around elder care and somatic relational-knowing co-mingle within the dream meaning-making process. Dreams’ concerns being at their core relational, it is suggested that intersubjectivity is pervasive, and perhaps primary, in meaning-making. In turn, dream insights can infuse and inform a relationship’s course. Opening the question of what informs the experience of heart knowing, the notion of transsubjectivity is explored. The latter is viewed as an incipient, yet patterning, knowing field.
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, 2014
This article explores the intersections between the dancer, forms of dance and emergent spiritual... more This article explores the intersections between the dancer, forms of dance and emergent spiritual experience. It articulates different kinds of dancing experiences that are co-created while practicing two forms of dance: Bharatha Natyam (a classical Indian dance) and Contact Improvisation. Inquiry into the phenomenology of dancing reveals commonalities in the emerging spiritual experience, while also recognizing their distinctive techniques and artistic forms. The exploration suggests that the dance, dancer and emerging spiritual experience co-create each other within the process of dancing irrespective of its form. This exploration and inquiry also offers a descriptive language for what is spirituality in dance.
Imagination Cognition and Personality, 1986
This article (Part II) presents the detailed analysis of one dream in order to illustrate the Dre... more This article (Part II) presents the detailed analysis of one dream in order to illustrate the Dream Understanding Exercise (DUE), a method of study presented in Part I. In the five-step method the dream and associations are recorded, followed by an analysis of content; an identification and expansion of the underlying script; an investigation of the dream characters' problem solving; and a look at problem solving at the organismic level. The method is evaluated and discussed in terms of the problem-solving function of dreams.
Friedman/The Wiley, 2013
This chapter explores dreaming (as content and process) from a transpersonal perspective, noting ... more This chapter explores dreaming (as content and process) from a transpersonal perspective, noting how a developmental perspective reveals the increasing complexity in dreams with maturity and how dreams and dreamwork foster psychospiritual skills development. Dreams can help reveal the broad outline of one's spiritual life and its finer contours. The epistemological and ontological gaze of transpersonal psychology helps disclose the wide-ranging phenomenology of human flourishing and the role played by dreaming in this evolutionary and maturational process, both in its self-referential aspect (understood metaphorically as a vertical connection between ego and Self), or relational aspect (horizontal connections) revealing one's situatedness within complex ecological, cultural, and relational matrices. A broad range of practices can be identified across cultures. These practices take account of the multifaceted nature of dreaming: as a special form of consciousness and as the source of creative material.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1986
This article (Part II) presents the detailed analysis of one dream in order to illustrate the Dre... more This article (Part II) presents the detailed analysis of one dream in order to illustrate the Dream Understanding Exercise (DUE), a method of study presented in Part I. In the five-step method the dream and associations are recorded, followed by an analysis of content; an identification and expansion of the underlying script; an investigation of the dream characters' problem solving; and a look at problem solving at the organismic level. The method is evaluated and discussed in terms of the problem-solving function of dreams.
Journal of Advanced Development, 2000
Abstract:
As a natural, adaptive and transformative process, dreams are intimately related to th... more Abstract:
As a natural, adaptive and transformative process, dreams are intimately related to the unfolding of the self. This paper discusses how specific dream-related skills-- metaphorical and imagistic thinking; appreciation of dream nuances; understanding of the body-mind boundaries; intentional dreaming; guidance, and empathy -- are connected to the notion of emotional and spiritual intelligence. The author postulates that, over time, the sustained practice of dreamwork leads to the development these skills and helps adult dreamers find creative ways to relate to them intelligibly.
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, Volume 1, Number 1, (pp 105-122), Jan 31, 2014
This article explores the intersections between the dancer, forms of dance and emergent spiritual... more This article explores the intersections between the dancer, forms of dance and emergent spiritual experience. It articulates different kinds of dancing experiences that are co-created while practicing two forms of dance: Bharatha Natyam (a classical Indian dance) and Contact Improvisation. Inquiry into the phenomenology of dancing reveals commonalities in the emerging spiritual experience, while also recognizing their distinctive techniques and artistic forms. The exploration suggests that the dance, dancer and emerging spiritual experience co-create each other within the process of dancing irrespective of its form. This exploration and inquiry also offers a descriptive language for what is spirituality in dance.
ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and …, Jan 1, 1992
Dreaming, Jan 1, 1995
In a collaborative research situation, dreamers were asked to reflect on the meaning of their own... more In a collaborative research situation, dreamers were asked to reflect on the meaning of their own dreams in relationship to self-selected current concerns. Dreamers gave a description of their current concerns in two different modes: 1) an abstract description (abstract mode) and 2) a concrete event (story-mode); during the following week, they were asked to note dreams that relate to the concerns (spontaneous mode of expression). An open-ended interview served as a collaborative mean to explore the relationship between the abstract and narrative modes of expression and the dream. A narrative approach was used to highlight particular structures of experience in each mode of expression using a case-example. The analysis suggests the possibility that in dream understanding, the focus on life concern is more easily accessible in a story-like manner. This supports the importance of life-story and of reflection on authorship in therapeutic encounter.
Psychiatric journal of the University of …, Jan 1, 1989
Used E. Mueller's (1987) computational model of human daydreaming to analyze the laboratory REM s... more Used E. Mueller's (1987) computational model of human daydreaming to analyze the laboratory REM sleep of an adult male in his late 20s. Three types of goals are examined: personal goals that derive from the day residue elicited from the S prior to the dream; the dream goals of reversal, rehearsal, rationalization, and revenge; and the planning goals or script identified in a metaphoric problem space. The kind and quantity of mechanisms that are postulated by Mueller for human daydreaming are also necessary to account for basic processes of night dream construction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
Presents a detailed analysis of a dream in order to illustrate the dream understanding exercise p... more Presents a detailed analysis of a dream in order to illustrate the dream understanding exercise presented in Part I of this article by the authors. In the 5-step method, the dream and associations are recorded, followed by an analysis of content, an identification and expansion of the underlying script, an investigation of the dream characters' problem solving, and a look at problem solving at the organismic level. The method is evaluated in terms of the problem-solving function of dreams.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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Books by Daniel Deslauriers
"A holistic approach to the fascinating, multifaceted world of dreams.
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change.
"
Papers by Daniel Deslauriers
As a natural, adaptive and transformative process, dreams are intimately related to the unfolding of the self. This paper discusses how specific dream-related skills-- metaphorical and imagistic thinking; appreciation of dream nuances; understanding of the body-mind boundaries; intentional dreaming; guidance, and empathy -- are connected to the notion of emotional and spiritual intelligence. The author postulates that, over time, the sustained practice of dreamwork leads to the development these skills and helps adult dreamers find creative ways to relate to them intelligibly.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
"A holistic approach to the fascinating, multifaceted world of dreams.
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change.
"
As a natural, adaptive and transformative process, dreams are intimately related to the unfolding of the self. This paper discusses how specific dream-related skills-- metaphorical and imagistic thinking; appreciation of dream nuances; understanding of the body-mind boundaries; intentional dreaming; guidance, and empathy -- are connected to the notion of emotional and spiritual intelligence. The author postulates that, over time, the sustained practice of dreamwork leads to the development these skills and helps adult dreamers find creative ways to relate to them intelligibly.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)