Marian Dunlea is a Jungian analyst and head of training in BodySoul Europe, part of the Marion Woodman Foundation. She is a Somatic Experiencing Trauma therapist based in the west of Ireland and is the creator of BodyDreaming.

Acknowledgements; Foreword by E. Donald Kalsched; Credits and Permissions; Part I: Setting the Scene; A Note to the Reader: How This Book Works; Introducing BodyDreaming; Why This Book Now: The Origins of BodyDreaming; Invitation to the Reader to Engage Experientially with the Text; The Black Pearl; Part II: Neuroscientific Background; Chapter One: How the Brain Works : A Brief Outline of the Neuroscientific Theory That Informs BodyDreaming; Part III: BodyDreaming in Clinical Practice; Chapter Two: Orienting, Regulating, Resourcing: "I may be able to find some peace here"; Chapter Three: Working the Threshold: "Slowly, slowly . . . 1%" ; Chapter Four: Attunement: Learned Secure Attachment in the Body: "I'm yielding to it"; Chapter Five: Working with Dissociative and Disoriented Attachment Patterns (1): "The child fell off the chair"; Chapter Six: Working with Dissociative and Disoriented Attachment Patterns (2): "It's all about trusting your gut"; Chapter Seven: Working with Numbness, Shut-down, Freeze: "Bushes Don't Have Panic Attacks"; Chapter Eight: The Matter of Self-Regulation: "The Sun is coming out of her face"; Chapter Nine: Intimations of the Numinous: "It feels like a visitation from the lady in red in here" ; Conclusion: "Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile"; Bibliography; Index