As a psychotherapist I deal frequently with clients’ dreams and thus wanted to create a series having to due with the psyche, in hope of plumbing inner demons and presenting them as do our dreams, in palatable, albeit confusing imagery. This is a series that combines matters of the psyche with that of the circus of days past. It is a dark place in which dreams reveal the inner workings of one’s demons and hold up a mirror reflecting back the unresolved issues as scenes from a circus peopled by anthropomorphized performers. Thomas Moore said in his book Care of the Soul, "Carnivals and circuses attract that element in the psyche that craves symbolic and dreamlike experiences". Before television and Hollywood the circus was a place to be entertained and shocked. Our greatest fears were played upon in tantalizing ways and we gladly submitted to being tricked. Like our dreams and nightmares, reality was twisted in strange and seemingly unbelievable ways. Yet there was enough grounding in reality to hook us and pull us in. The stuff of our waking life takes on many forms in our dreams, in our subconscious’ effort to show us what we are avoiding and ignoring. Each ‘circus act’ was constructed and then photographed. The images are marred as are our psyches, showing the signs of our history and aging. When one visualizes images from their dreams, they are often dark and confused, sometimes color, often black and white. They appear as vignettes, things fading in and out of focus and presenting layers of symbolism and metaphor. Each act in Cirque du Psyche is a visual metaphor for a psychic struggle.