Patricia Garfield

Patricia L. Garfield was an American academic specializing in the study of dreams, specifically the cognitive processes underpinning them. She was the author of 10 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 “Creative Dreaming.” The IASD is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the “pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.” Garfield was the President of the ASD from 1998 to 1999.

Works

Mourning Dove: Dream Poems, Numina Books, 2007.

– Non-fiction winner of the 2002 Parents' Guide Media Award, nominated for the Young Hoosier's Book Award 2004-2005

Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams to Develop Creativity, Overcome Fears, Solve Problems, and Create a Better Self, Simon & Schuster, first printed in 1974, reprinted with 19 domestic printings and nine foreign editions in 1976. Revised and reprinted in 1995. – Psychology Today book club alternate selection The Healing Power of Dreams, Simon & Schuster, 1991, with two foreign editions. Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams, Ballantine Books, 1988.

Your Child's Dreams, Ballantine Books, 1984, three foreign editions. Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979, one foreign edition, Prentice Hall, 1989, trade edition.