ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes contemporary dream-healing pilgrimages to Greece, based on anthropological participant observation and drawing on the writing of Edward Tick and others. Greece's past draws many foreign visitors. Ed Tick came to lead dream-healing pilgrimages to Greece through his work with Vietnam veterans. Dissatisfied with the approaches of conventional psychotherapy and with what he felt was their ineffectiveness in dealing with veterans post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Tick, a Jungian psychotherapist, searched other traditions for archetypes that might be helpful in his therapeutic work. Tick's own healing journey began with a visit to Epidaurus, where he attended a performance of The Trojan Women. Journeys led by Tick, concluded with a dream-healing incubation conducted in a hotel room, converted, through ritual and sacred objects, into a healing dream space. The incubation reflects a process that consists of ritual preparation, mythic immersion, instruction and guidance, and the development of group support and solidarity.
