Dream Reader (Suny Series, Dream Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791426181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 692 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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D., co-author of Dream Telepathy and Working With Dreams, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine" . Montague Ullman, M. The author has covered an incredible body of literature, subjecting all that he has read to evaluative and integrative commentary. Dream Reader by Anthony Shafton is a book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it. This is the first definitive and comprehensive sourcebook to cover the classical, the research, and the current theoretical contributions to our understanding of the nature and usefulness of dreams
"an expansive review of the field of dream studies" according to spiegler@suba.com. This book is an interesting, intelligent and all encompassing overview of the field of dream studies. This is not the New Age pablum that some might fear because of the area of focus, but is rather a serious scientific and cultural analysis of dream studies in re. Very informative, but too much focus on outdated psychoanalysis I found this book informative as it was detailed on the interesting subjects of sleep physiology, dream incubation, and lucid dreaming. It is unique in that it contains an academic discussion of incubation and lucidity without being too New Agey. However, the aut
A comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding dreams. The general reader interested in exploring the world of dreams could not obtain a better introduction and grounding than from this book. D., co-author of Dream Telepathy and Working With Dreams, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of MedicineDream Reader is a uniquely comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding and working with dreams. The author has covered an incredible body of literature, subjecting all that he has read to evaluative and integrative commentary." -- Montague Ullman, M. Also included are chapters dealing with various topics of interest: the dream styles of people of both genders, and of people