The Composer’s Dream: Essays on Dreams, Creativity and Change
di Massimo Schinco (2011)
The Composer’s Dream is a unique book that ties creativity, music, dreaming, and psychotherapy into a shared process. The author is able to weave all of these into a unifying human experience through great works of art, unique dreams, and the therapeutic experience. The place where one’s own creativity, experience of music, revelations in psychotherapy and the dreaming mind meet is where the elusive mystery of life can be revealed.
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Jean Campbell
Introduction
The Spirit of Brundibar
Brundibar
Brundibar’s Plot
Brundibar’s Spirit
Consciousness and Being a Person
Dreaming
Dreams, Creativity and Problem Solving
“Being-with-someone”
Dreams and Obstacles
Dreams and Development
Dreams and future
Dreams, nightmares and awakening: behind Gioachino Rossini’s masks
Genius and Sensitivity
True and Madness
Dreaming
The Nightmare
Stabat Filius
Reawakening
Psychotherapy on a G string
An air between…
From the World to Earth
Wakeful Activities
Sleep and psychotherapy
Consciousness
Dreams, Music and Quantum Physics
Math and Physics
A Dream
Music and Psychology
Creativity
Music Thinking and Dream Thinking
Production and Thought
Music Thought and Dreams
The Composer’s Dream
ENDORSEMENTS
In this fine book Massimo Schinco has brought together and masterfully woven a rich tapestry using “threads” as diverse as music, dreams, history, politics and psychotherapy. I am convinced no reader can help but have his or her horizons widened through reading what Dr. Schinco has here brought together. Through reading this book one’s appreciation for the power of music and dreams as they affect creativity will grow enormously. At the same time, one learns about the vagaries of the human psyche, both for good and evil. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Art Funkhouser, Jungian psychotherapist, Bern, Switzerland
A recent challenge for psychotherapy is the enfranchisement from medical metaphors and, conversely, the confrontation with philosophical, literary, poetic and artistic metaphors. Massimo Schinco’s work is one of the most valuable contributions to this process in years. His exploration of artistic and creative metaphors is provided with substance and not merely at a theorical level. Since Massimo Schinco actually lives in both the world of psychotherapy and the world of music and art, he is able to do this well. His present interest in dreams is a natural extension of his work over the years. I hope that many will read this book so that his research brings inspiration to many therapists.
Massimo Giuliani, Systemic Psychotherapist, Brescia, Italy
In music, as in psychotherapy, to listen to others and to oneself is a basic ability; thus, it’s an asset that Massimo Schinco never gives up being enchanted by the music/magic and keeps delving into its processes. As a result, he presents us with original and touching works like this book. I recommend all music lovers to read it.
Paolo Fiamingo, Conductor and Pianist, Turin, Italy
