Abstract
ABSTRACT During the last 15 years there has been a huge amount of research in a field now known as the biology of dreaming. Many researchers, however, want to study the dream itself rather than its biology. This group of researchers is prominent among the authors of the present volume.The book begins with the traditional physiological chapter by Dr. Snyder. This is followed by a number of different viewpoints on the psychology of dreaming including some seldom-heard views such as the culturalist, Jungian, Adlerian, and existential. Meier, attempting to formulate a Jungian view of dreams, makes one excellent point: if, as Freudian theory suggests, censorship and repression together serve an important function in psychic health by keeping most dream material out of awareness, then a subject repeatedly awakened during D-periods in the laboratory and asked for his dreams would be expected to find this a quite terrifying experience, a forcible
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