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Authors: Melvin Lansky, Melvin R. Lansky
ISBN-13: 9780814750629, ISBN-10: 0814750621
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: April 1992
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Melvin Lansky

Melvin R. Lansky is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Medical School, and Faculty, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute.

Book Synopsis

This collection traces the history of psycho-analytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of dreams and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool- of the mind first, later of the psychoanalytic process and of pathology and loge predicaments, and finally as a tool to be integrated with other methods of investigation.

Booknews

Assembles 21 essential and enduring contributions that take the psychoanalytically sophisticated reader from the origins of psychoanalytic thinking about dreams set forward in 1900 in The Interpretation of dreams to the present day complexity and controversy of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreaming. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
I	Psychoanalytic Classics
1	The Legacy of The Interpretation of Dreams	3
2	Revision of the Theory of Dreams	32
3	Dream Psychology and the Analytic Situation	53
II	Current Psychoanalytic Views
A	General
4	The Exceptional Position of the Dream in Psychoanalytic Practice	83
B	Manifest Content
5	Ego Feeling in Dreams	111
6	The Dream Specimen of Psychoanalysis	137
C	Synthesis and Adaptation
7	Formation and Evaluation of Hypotheses in Dream Interpretation	183
8	Dreams in Clinical Psychoanalytic Practice	197
9	Dreams and Their Various Purposes	213
D	Object, Self, Affect
10	The Function of Dreams	239
11	The Psychological Function of Dreams: A Revised Psychoanalytic Perspective	249
12	Dreams and the Subjective World	272
III	Special Topics
A	Trauma and Pathology
13	Emergence of Hidden Ego Tendencies during Dream Analysis	299
14	Depersonalization and the Dream	309
B	Nightmares
15	Nightmares and the Combat Neuroses	323
16	Toward a Theory of Nightmares	343
17	Nightmares and Boundaries in the Mind	376
18	The Screening Function of Post-Traumatic Nightmares	401
C	Dreams and Current Research
19	Experimental and Clinical Approaches to the Mind-Body Problem through Recent Research in Sleep and Dreaming	427
20	The Brain as a Dream Machine: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of Dreaming	452
IV	Vistas
21	Emerging Perspectives on the Dream as an Investigative Tool	477
	Appendix 1. List of Writings by Freud Dealing Predominantly or Largely with Dreams	495
	Appendix 2. Psychoanalytic or Psychoanalytically Informed Books on Dreams	497
	Name Index	499
	Subject Index	503
	About the Editor	523