The dream frontier /
Mark J. Blechner.
- x, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
Introduction and Overview. The Dream Frontier -- New Ways of Thinking About Dreams. The Analysis and Creation of Dream Meaning. Secondary Revision, Tertiary Revision, and Beyond. Who Creates, Has, Remembers, Tells, and Interprets the Dream? We Never Lie in Our Dreams. Condensation and Interobjects. Oneiric Darwinism. Dreams and the Language of Thought -- Clinical Work With Dreams. Vectors of Dream Interpretation. How to Analyze Dreams: Fundamental Principles. How to Analyze Dreams: Special Topics. Homonyms and Other Wordplay in Dreams. Dream Acts: Dreams in Analysis as Actions. Dream Symbols. Kleinian Positions and Dreams. The Patient's Dreams and the Countertransference. Dreams as Supervision, Dreams in Supervision. The Clinical Use of Countertransference Dreams. The Reallocation of Madness -- Sleep, Dreams, and the Brain. Knowing What We Know in Waking and Dreaming. What Dreams Can Tell Us About the Brain. Endoneuropsychic Perception. I. 1. II. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. IV. 20. 21. 22.
"The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigures that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on psychodynamic theorists and neuroscientific researchers with equal fluency and grace, Mark Blechner introduces the reader to a conversation of the finest minds, from Freud to Jung, from Sullivan to Erikson, from Aserinsky and Kleitman to Hobson, as they work toward an understanding of dreams and dreaming that is both scientifically credible and personally meaningful."--BOOK JACKET.