Dreaming

Description

This title focuses on dreaming to introduce the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It shows how the science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it helps us to understand the basis of mental illness.

Reviews

Looks at the new scientific facts about dreaming and possible answers to long-held questions about the activation, function, and interpretation of dreams and it relates the science of dreaming and sleep to their interpretation in history and in psychoanalysis.

Table of contents

1. What is dreaming?; 2. Why dream content analysis failed to become a science; 3. Brain activation in sleep; 4. The cells and molecules of the dreaming brain; 5. Why dream? The functions of brain activation in sleep; 6. Disorders of dreaming; 7. Dreaming as delirium: Sleep and mental illness; 8. The new neuropsychology of dreaming; 9. Dreaming, learning, and memory; 10. Dream consciousness; 11. The interpretaion of dreaming