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Patricia Garfield

Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on dreams. She is the author of 10 published books covering a broad range of dream topics. These topics include: nightmares, children’s dreams, healing through dreams and dream-related art. Her best-known work is the classic “Creative Dreaming.” Originally published in 1974 it was in 1976 and then revised and reprinted again in 1995. Her eleventh book is due to appear in March, 2011. A complete list of her publications appears at the end of this article.

A Precocious Student of Dreams

Garfield awoke to her dreams early. Her interest in dreams began at age thirteen: “. . . my mother was reading books by Freud and Jung and discussing their ideas at the dinner table. Already a vivid dreamer, I was curious whether my dreams were 'messages to myself.' If so, I wanted to know what they were saying. At first I just scribbled the dreams on scraps of paper (soon scattered) but found the process so useful that at fourteen I began keeping a formal dream journal and working with the images as well as drawing the impressive ones. I found that dreams revealed things about my feelings that I had not been fully aware of while awake.”

Because of the help she received from her dreams she continued her private dream journals and sketches, even while teaching and writing about dreams. She says, of those dream journals: “My current collection runs from 1949 to 2011; it encompasses more than 62 years and takes up some 48 large binders.”

The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD)

Garfield is one of the six co-founders of The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), originally called the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD). The IASD is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the “pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.” Garfield’s five ASD co-founders are: Strephon Kaplan Williams, Jeremy Taylor, Gayle Delaney, John Van Damm, and Stephen LaBerge. Garfield was the President of the ASD from 1998 to 1999.

On their website The IASD http://asdreams.org/ the IASD states: “Our purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information.”