Podcast Course
Dreamwork and Chinese Medicine
“...the barest whisper of a fragment of a dream”
(number of) NCCAOM PDA
Goals and Objectives
- How Dream work fits in Chinese Medicine
- Looking for repeated themes, getting clear on the images
- Ling Shu and Dreams
- Carl Jung's perspective on dreams
Meet Your instructor
Bob Quinn, DAOM, L.Ac
Bob Quinn has been in practice for 20 years and has a number of areas of interest.
He studied with Jeffrey Taylor from 1993 until his recent passing. Jeremy was acknowledged as a leading international figure in driving the strong interest in recent years in delving into dreams in the non-professional community—Jeremy himself was trained as a Unitarian Universalist minister, not as a therapist. What Bob has done in his work is take Jeremy’s style of dreamwork—he called it Projective Dreamwork—and use it as his way of working with patient dream images.
In this way we can expand beyond the paucity of images listed in the Nei Jing. It is one of Bob’s passions to reintroduce this neglected part of our medicine back into common practice. The insights that dreams hold into the deeper layers of our patients are hard to find in other approaches, and this is perhaps why all systems of traditional medicine have valued dreams so highly.