Latest PublicationsShamans, mystics, priests, psychoanalysts, and neuroscientists have been puzzling over the same question for centuries. What can we discover about ourselves in our dreams?
Worry and fear are bedmates. Fear is a physiological reaction focused on a perceived immediate threat; worry is a thought process; worry is our brain thinking about what it fears.
Reader FavoritesDaughters growing up without a father face specific challenges. Fathers influence their daughters’ relational lives, creativity, sense of authority, and self-esteem.
Fear of abandonment has pervaded storytelling throughout the ages. Fairy and folk tales, in particular, capture a range of dimensions of loss and transformation.
How do we untangle precognitive knowing from mere coincidence?
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In Norse legend, the Jotunheimen Alps are called the “Home of the Giants,” home to jötnar (trolls). This morning, a friend of mine described his recent adventure trekking in that Norwegian wilderness, his face lit with a radiance I hadn’t seen before. . . .
Letters from DaleDale’s Books
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Wild Freedom
NEW Book
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Poems
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The Conditions of Love
Debut Novel
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Strange Attractors
“My Magdalene: Divinity and Desire”
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Jung's Red Book for Our Time
“In Extremis: Jung’s Descent into the Language of the Self”
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Eranos
“Reflections on Eranos”
Dale’s Writings
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Women Writers, Women's Books
Dale M. Kushner writes about the genesis of her new book, Wild Freedom: The Princess Who Found Her Name — On Fairy Tales, Imagination, and the Creative Mind.
“Our great-great-greats exchanged fairy tales around a fire, cautionary tales that taught about the nature of good and evil, about jealousy, grief, and love. Writing a fairy tale saved me. The tale became a guidebook for self-awareness and self-discovery.”
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Book DNA
Dale M. Kushner's favorite books that translate harsh realities into stories that speak truth about our inner lives
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Writer's Digest
Fairy Tales as Survival Stories: A Personal Tale
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Psychology Today
"Transcending the Past" - monthly column since 2014
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Glassworks
Interview with Dale
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The International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma
Myriam, Lebanon, 1993
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Jewish Currents
"My Jewish Question, My Father"
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Prairie Schooner
"Amour Fou" and "Unus Mundus, One World"
An interview with neuroscientist Daniela Schiller, co-author of a recent study offering evidence that the brain encodes traumatic memories differently from other memories.