{"title":"Allan Frater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAllan Frater grew up on the edge of a small village near Edinburgh, reading comics and walking his dog Jet in the surrounding countryside. He survived an engineering degree and a very short career as a maths teacher by watching movies and reading novels. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, he spent his twenties living and working in Buddhist communities where he came across the east-meets-west fusion of transpersonal psychology and eventually trained to become a psychotherapist. His psychotherapy practice and teaching career at the Psychosynthesis Trust have allowed him to research an image-based approach to therapy, which features in both of his publications with Transpersonal Press. Now living in North London, married and middle-aged, he feels fortunate to have kept touch with his original sources of inspiration, continuing to read lots of fiction (including comics!) and spend time outdoors walking his three-legged dog, Milly. Further info: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wildimagination.uk\/\"\u003ewww.wildimagination.uk\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"waking-dreams-imagination-in-psychotherapy-and-everyday-life","title":"Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, by Allan Frater","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a waking dream, we inhabit the dreamworld with an awareness of doing so-as sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present alongside an awareness of lying in bed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking perspectives from transpersonal psychology, ecotherapy, complexity theory, and fractal geometry, this book develops new possibilities within waking dream practice (also known as \"active imagination\" and \"guided imagery\") to show: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehow the in-between waking\/dreaming experience allows us to become aware of not just what we imagine but also the process of how we imagine-a process that reveals the principles and skills of image-based transformation and healing. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehow a broad understanding of imagination-as present in all perceptions, actions, and relationships (not just as pictures \"inside the mind\")-allows for an image-centric approach to psychotherapy and everyday life as an ongoing \"eyes-wide-open\" waking dream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result is an experiential and theoretical appreciation of imagination, not just as a means to rational insight but as a creative ability at the heart of human potential. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf you are interested in cultivating a richer, story-filled, and enchanted existence, or you are a therapist wanting to help others do so, this might be the book you have been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e222 pages paperback, ISBN 978-1-912698-08-0\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eREVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A direct and inspiring immersion in the practice of working with the imagination, aimed particularly at therapists but also of interest to any practitioner. It effectively challenges the assumption that imagination is merely \"inner\", and offers balanced, subtle techniques for developing hypnagogic experience that are clearly grounded in years of reflection on imaginative practice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Robert M. 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