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An Introduction To The Psychology Of Dreaming » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Kelly Bulkeley
ISBN-13: 9780275958909, ISBN-10: 0275958906
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: December 1997
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Kelly Bulkeley

KELLY BULKELEY, President of the Association for the Study of Dreams, teaches at Santa Clara University and is the author of several works on the subject of dreams.

Book Synopsis

This text is a one-stop resource on modern dream psychology, from the pioneering theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to the revolutionary findings of the sleep laboratory.

Booknews

Bulkeley (Santa Clara U.), president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, presents 20th-century psychology's diverse theories regarding the formation, function, and interpretation of dreams: from the traditional Freudian, to the reverse-learning theory of Crick and Mitchison, which posits that dreamers should be glad they rarely remember their REM productions<-->as their function is to remove negative patterns of thought from the brain. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1Three Basic Questions about Dreaming: Formation, Function, Interpretation1
2Sigmund Freud Discovers "The Secret of Dreams"13
3C.G. Jung Descends into the Collective Unconscious27
4Alternative Clinical Theories About Dreams39
5Sleep Laboratories, REM Sleep, and Dreaming51
6Experimental Psychology and Dreaming67
7Popular Psychology: Bringing Dreams to the Masses85
8Modern Psychology's Answers to the Three Basic Questions about Dreaming101
Bibliography113
Index127

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