Children''s Dreams - From Freud''s Observations to Modern Dream Research

About the author

Claudio Colace is executive Psychologist at the Operational Unit of Psychology of the National Health Service in Italy, where he works in the Outpatient Psychology Department and in the Centre for Drug Addictions at Civita Castellana. He obtained a MD in Psychology at the University of Rome and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Bologna, Italy. After training in sleep research at the Sleep Laboratory of the University of Rome ("La Sapienza"), he carried out empirical studies on children's dreams, dream bizarreness, and on dreaming in states of addiction. He has been a member of the Italian Society of Sleep Research from 1997 to 2009 and is currently a member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He is the author of scientific contributions published in 'The American Journal on Addictions, Neuropsychoanalysis, Alcohol and Drug Review, Sleep and Hypnosis, Sleep', and 'Sleep Research'. He has recently published 'Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research'.

Summary

Presents a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freud's dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about children's dreams. This title provides a description of Freud's observations on child dreaming and also presents the results obtained from four empirical studies on children's dreams.

Product details

• Authors: Claudio Colace, Colace Claudio
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367323721
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32372-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Neuroscience, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)