Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery, and Hypnosis [Paperback]

One cause of the behavioral, emotional and mental torment in a person's life is the psychological trauma that results from the actions and words of parents and others. This volume, Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis by Nicholas E. Brink examines the effect of such trauma on a child's development and how the resulting torment eventually brings this child as an adult to psychotherapy. This trauma may be as subtle as a parental sigh of disappointment or as direct as physical or sexual abuse. Six clients are then led on a journeying through the unconscious mind using dream work, hypnosis and imagery in the course of therapy to uncover and heal these traumas to free the client of torment.

I The Imagery of Dreams, Hypnosis, and Myth
 Dreams
 Hypnosis
 Myth

II The Lineage of Hrothgar: Dissociation from Trauma
 The Nature of Trauma
 The First Generation:Exacting Tribute
 The Second Generation:Seeking to Please
 The Death of Scyld:The Time for Dissociation
 The Third Generation: The Payoff of Success
 The Fourth Generation:Becoming Established

III Grendel, Our Despair
 Grendel of the Borderlands
 Grendel, The Descendant of Cain
 The Grendel of Envy
 The Grendel of Self-Blame
 God and Abuse
 Attacked While Asleep
 Grief
 Further Attacks
 Withdrawal to Outlying Buildings
 The Spirit is Broken
 The Treasure-Throne is Safe
 Prayers to Heathen Shrines

IV The Coming of Beowulf
 Beowulf Comes from Across the Sea
 Beowulf Comes Unexpectedly