Dr. Garfield holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from
Temple University (1968) in Philadelphia, where she obtained her Master's and Bachelor's
degrees in Psychology. She graduated summa cum laude, with Distinction in Psychology,
received the Psychology Prize, the College Alumni First Prize, and other honors.
She taught psychology at the college level for several
years, at Temple University; at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (as
assistant professor); at California State College, Sonoma; and for the University of
California Extension at various campuses, including Berkeley, San Diego, Irvine, and Santa
Cruz.
Dr. Garfield has served as a paid consultant for various
organizations (ABC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Geographic, among others),
and has given lectures at colleges and groups in the U.S. and abroad (including the
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India; The University of Leiden, The Netherlands; The
Kosmos Center, Amsterdam; the Smithsonian Institute). In 1984, she toured ancient dream
temples, as a guest of the Greek travel board, in Greece and Turkey.
Dr. Garfield began her personal dream diary in 1949, at
the age of fourteen, and has continued it for the subsequent 50+ years. It contains more
than 20,000 dreams--perhaps the longest dream record in the world.
Her six major works are: Creative Dreaming
(Simon & Schuster, 1974; 1995); Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream
Mandala (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979; Prentice Hall, 1989); Your
Child's Dreams (Ballantine, 1984); Women's Bodies, Women's
Dreams (Ballantine, 1988, 1991); The Healing Power of Dreams
(Simon & Schuster, 1991); The Dream Messenger: How Dreams of the Departed
Bring Healing Gifts (Simon & Schuster, 1997).
These works have appeared in twelve foreign languages,
including Russian, Japanese, and Hungarian, and frequently have been book club selections.
They have been featured in major newspapers (including The New York Times, Chicago
Tribune, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc.) and magazines in the U.S. (such as
Reader's Digest, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Omni, Psychology Today, Bride's, Women's Day,
Family Circle, Parenting, New Age Magazine, Mademoiselle, People, etc.), as well as in
Europe.
Dr. Garfield is often a guest on national television and
radio. She has appeared on ABC's 20/20 News Magazine show three times, once as co-host
with Hugh Downs. She was on the Merv Griffin show; To Tell the Truth; the Tomorrow show
with Tom Snyder; A.M. America; Cable News Network; The Home Show with Gary Collins; and
countless others. She has made guest appearances on National Public Radio, British
Broadcasting Corporation, as well as Scottish, Canadian, French and German television and
radio shows.
She was recently featured in a national two-hour special
on dreams for NBC, appeared on Good Morning America, participated in a series on dreams
for Channel 4 in London, served as consultant and interviewee for a Finnish production on
the Senoi Dreamtribe, and appeared in a documentary on dreams for national television in
Japan.
In addition to the popular books on dreams, Dr. Garfield
has written various papers on the subject of dreams for professional journals, (including
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, the Psychiatric Journal of the University of
Ottawa, and Sleep Research); she has also contributed chapters to academic books on
dreams, such as Trauma and Dreams (Deirdre Barrett, ed., 1996 published by Harvard
University Press).
An international authority on the subject of dreams, Dr.
Patricia Garfield lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, a psychotherapist.
Dr. Garfield
is a world-wide dream expert. She was one of six co-founders of an international group,
The Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD), that now consists of over 900 prominent
dreamworkers, researchers and writers from around the globe. She is the 1998-99 President
of the ASD. Her six books on dreams include the bestseller Creative Dreaming--considered a
classic and still in print after twenty-four years, with a recent updated version.
