The New Science of Dreaming

Dozens of contributors - including leading experts with an international reputation in their fields - also show us how brain functions affect and are affected by dreaming, and why these new findings should be important to all of us. Volume I, "Biological Aspects", spotlights the biology of sleep and dreaming. Volume II, "Content, Recall, and Personality Correlates", focuses on dream content and its many facets. In Volume III, "Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives", the many theoretical accounts of dreams are presented.

About the author

Deirdre Barrett is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is Past President of the Association for the Study of Dreams, editor-in-chief of the journal Dreaming, and President of the American Psychological Association's Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Patrick McNamara is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory in the Department of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine and the VA New England Healthcare System. He is also editor of Where God and Science Meet (Praeger, 2006) and An Evolutionary Psychology of Sleep and Dreams (Praeger, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: Deirdre (EDT)/ McNamara Barrett
• Assisted by: Deirdre Barrett (Editor), Deirdre Leigh Barrett (Editor), Patrick Mcnamara (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2007
• EAN: 9780275990459
• ISBN: 978-0-275-99045-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 83 mm
• Series: Praeger Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology