The  session  will  be  led  by  Henry  Reed,  Lyn Hooley
Reed,  and  Francis  Sporer.  Contact Atlantic University,
P. O.  Box  595,  Virginia   Beach,   Virginia  23451,  for
further details.

DREAM WORKSHOPS—SUMMER 1977

     Dreamwork is the speciality of the house at these two
places   and   we've  heard  favorable  reports  concerning
their  activities.  For more  information  concerning both
short— and  long—term   residential   dream  workshops,
contact:
     Robert Van de Castle, Blackberry  Hill Farm, Route 2,
Box 488, Crozet, Virginia 22932.
     Willard   Draisin,  The  Golden  Rectangle,  P. O. Box
2711, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.

DREAMS AND DEATH

     With  the  help   of  Marilyn  Mittermaier,  a  doctoral
candidate at  the Union Graduate School, the Community
Dream Journal is  undertaking  a project  on dreams and
death. The general  scope of  the project revolves around
these  questions:  What can  dreams  teach  us  about  the
nature of death? Can people confronting death  be helped
by  their  dreams   to  prepare  for  the   transition?  What
counseling methods can be developed to help people who
are confronting  death  take  advantage  of  the  resources
their dreams may provide? Ms. Mittermaier writes:
     I have been  working  with  women  cancer  patients,
collecting their dreams and doing dream analysis with
them. One woman, 67 years old,  with  terminal cancer,
who  had been receiving  hormonal treatment, had this
dream  that preceded  her return to better health: I am
given  a   wilting  rose   plant   which  I  water  myself   and
then it revives and conies to life.
     In  addition  to  the therapy aspect of my research, I
am interested in learning  how  dreams  can be used to
develop  a  personal  myth  about  death  and  what   to
expect after death.  I have found that death evokes less
anxiety  in  terminal  patients,   and   instead   awakens

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