Lou Hagood's Blog

A Site for Dream Play

Lou Hagood

Lou Hagood
Location
New York, New York,
Birthday
March 06
Bio
I am a licensed psychoanalyst who does dream play face-to-face or by email at louis.hagood3@gmail.com I will be demonstrating dream play here at OS. I have discovered dream play to be the most powerful of healing visualizations. You can visit my dream blog at www.playingwithdreams.blogspot.com

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OCTOBER 9, 2009 11:15AM

Divine Dream Play

Dreams were once divine. In early Greek and Biblical times, mortals received inspiration, guidance and healing from the divine in their dreams. Before the philosophical and religious establishment became the exclusive voice of the divine, gods and their emissaries intervened nocturnally in the li… Read full post »
OCTOBER 6, 2009 11:34AM

Healing Dream Play

In 2001 I was diagnosed with a low-grade prostate cancer before the annual conference of The Association for the Study of Dreams. Before leaving for Santa Cruz, California, I had a dream of returning to college to get my red Triumph Spitfire sports car that I had… Read full post »
OCTOBER 5, 2009 11:22AM

Quantum Dream Play

Freud’s dreambook, like Newtonian physics, assumed a separate entity, subject to external and internal forces with precise deterministic laws. His book was a result of self-analysis, with the distant Fleiss as his external force. Freud, the classical scientist, distanced his dreamwork from… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 11:31AM

Dream Play in Washington

I attended the 2000 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams in Washington because of the Mythic Journey Workshop sessions spread over the four days of the conference. Being a Joseph Campbell groupie when younger, I had trained in psychoanalysis to follow my bliss… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 2:37PM

Playing with Dreams


“On the seashores of endless worlds, children play.”

In his book Playing and Reality, the British pediatrician and psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott took the quote above from the Indian mystic Tagore. In the book he introduced the concept of transitional space for the play area between the me… Read full post »