The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries Into Modern Medicine

Asklepios was a Greek god of healing. Like Christ, he was said to have walked the earth performing miracle cures. His medicine was practiced by priests known as therapeutes (the first therapists) who interperted patients' dreams in which the god gave advice. The results as documented in literature and in thousands of ancient testimonies, reveal the root of modern medical science and psychotherapy. Tick describes this figure and his followers of today.A very interesting approach by a psychotherapist to the methods of healing of the Ancient Greeks.

ISBN: 0835607992