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Introduction Jayne Gackenback
Part 1: EXPERIMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Sources and Consequences of Dreams: Experimental Manipulations and Their Effects Joseph DeKoninckAn Experimental Approach to the Anomalous Dream Stanley Krippner
Vestibular Involvement in the Neurocognition of Lucid Dreaming Thomas J. Snyder and Jayne GackenbachLinguistic and Literary Creativity in Dreams: A Psychoanalytic and an Experimental Approach Frank Heynick
Part 2: CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Nightmares: Facts, Fictions and Future Directions Kathryn Belicki and Marion A. CuddyNightmares and Childhood Dreams Patricia GarfieldThe Meaning of Dreams: A Current Warning Theory Robert C. SmithDream Work with Dissociated Patients and a Self Curative Programming Function of Dreams Roy D. SalleyA Selective Mood Regulatory Function for Sleep Milton KramerThe Psychobiology of Mental Illness: Changes in the Physiological and Psychological Aspects of Sleep Milton Kramer
Part 3: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS
Interdisciplinary Studies of Dreams: Finding a Common Ground Don Kuiken Languages of Dreaming: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Dreaming in Other Cultures Waud H. KrackeEarly Hindu Speculation about Dreams: Implications for Dream Yoga George Gillespie
Part 4: CONSIDERATIONS BEYOND DREAMING
Reality Dreams and Their Effects on Spiritual Belief: A Revision of Animism Theory Tore A. NielsenLucid Dreaming as a Meditative State: Some Evidence from Long-Term Meditators in Relation to the Cognitive-Psychological Bases of Transpersonal Phenomena Harry T. HuntA Developmental Model of Consciousness in Sleep: From Sleep Consciousness to Pure Consciousness Jayne GackenbachSubject Index
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Jayne Gackenbach (Author) , Anees A Sheikh (Author)
Summary
This new text is a state-of-the-art collection of essays representing varying points of view about dreams and the major research conducted in dream therapy today. Renewed interest into serious dream investigation in recent years has supplied a variety of conceptual and research applications into dream study. At long last, "Dream Images: A Call to Mental Arms", brings these current works together, in one complete, comprehensive volume.
