Christopher's Dreams: Dreaming and Living With AIDS

Diagnosed with AIDS, shunned from his church, alienated from society, Christopher P. came to Dr. Robert Bosnak with very clear goals. "I want out," said Christopher wearily, "I don't want this gay life anymore." Using Jungian dreamwork to help Christopher make sense of his life in the face of suffering and loss, the two men explore his dreams, which, as his illness progresses, become increasingly haunted by images of pollution and decay.



Carefully recording his dreams in a brown corduroy notebook to analyze in therapy sessions, Christopher confronts the specters of guilt, self-blame, and fear that have enveloped him, and gains a knowledge that will eventually bring him from conflict to clarity, despair to hope. Against his will, Bosnak is swept into Christopher's life and begins to take on his patient's struggle as his own. Originally published as Dreaming with an AIDS Patient, Christopher's Dreams includes a startling new account of hope and living in the future reflected in the dreams of patients using the latest treatments.