Psychodynamic Neurology Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Reality

Historical Background: The Mind-Brain Schism of 1900
Virtual Reality Dream—12/6/2011
Philosophical Issues
The Freudian Split
Modern Sleep Science
Psychodynamics
William James
Helmholtz and the Pact Against Vitalism
Wilhelm Wundt

Neurological Development: Sleep and Dream Science
Noreene Storrie and Potatoes—11/26/2012
Self and Agency
Fetal Brain Activation
Sleep Eye Movement
I Move, Therefore I Am
Separate Selves
Vision in Waking and Dreaming
A Virtual Space for Virtual Sensation and Virtual Movement
Taking Virtual Reality Seriously
Evolution
Self-Organization
Dreaming in Real-Time
Time Sense in Dreams

Lucid Dreaming: Splitting Primary and Secondary Consciousness
Waking Dream—1/12/13
Flip-Flop States
Brain Dissociation
Free Will?
Brain Imaging and Lucid Dreaming

Hypnosis: Entering The Brain-Mind Via The Brain Stem Cellar
Associations Are Never Free
Autosuggestion and Self-Hypnosis

Let There Be Light: Information Creation and Management
PGO Waves of REM Sleep
PGO Wave Inhibition
Turning on PGO Waves and REM Sleep
A Startling Hypothesis

Central Heating: Keeping Warm While Dreaming
Circadian Rhythms
Loss of Temperature Control
Individuality and Sleep
Alcoholism: An Experiment of Culture And Nature
Psychodynamic Neurology?
Quantification
What Is Free Energy?

Religion And Sexuality: A Civil War in the Brain-Mind
Religion
Dreaming as Religion
My God Is Better than Yours
Varieties of Religious Experience
Denial of Comfort
Sex
Chinese Love Dream—1/12/2012
Sex Rules
Brain Activation In Sleep
Wet Dreams
Sex and Religion Cross Wires

The Psychodynamic Ego: An Epigenetic Self
Freud as Inadvertent Cartesian
A Conceptual Reversal
Mental? Illness
The Trauma Hunt
Why Go to Medical School?
Celebrate Skepticism
A Shorthand of Defenses
Psychological Camouflage
Primary and Secondary Consciousness
Free Will
Dreaming as Primary Consciousness

The Transcendental Ego: Art and Science of the Brain-Mind
The Creative Ego
Philosophical Background
Biologizing Kant
Transcendentalism
A Model of the World
Is Waking as Bizarre as Dreaming?
Illogical Us
Creativity and the Transcendent Ego
Ski-Flying Dream—Sicily, 4/8/2011
Storytelling and the Transcendent Ego
New Initiatives Linking Dream Science and Literature
Toward a Science of Subjectivity

Instincts And Emotions: Ethology of the Brain-Mind
Emotion Is Inherently Cognitive
Ethological Psychiatry
The Reticular Activating System
REM Sleep Without Atonia
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Threat Avoidance
Attachment and Separation

Psychopathology: Dysfunction of the Brain-Mind
Dream Madness
What Kind of Psychosis Is Dreaming?
Sleep and Mood Regulation
A Paradox Explained
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors
Lessons from the Past

Memory: Epigenetic and Experiential Aspects
Contrasts with The Freudian Unconscious
Genetic Memory
Epigenetic Memory
Epigenetic Instantiation of The NREM-REM Sleep Cycle
Cats Beget Kittens
REM Sleep and the Consolidation Of Memory
Elaborative Encoding

Post-Freudian Revisions: Further Attacks on Psychoanalysis and Alternative Models
The Anti-Freud War
Biological Psychiatry and Psychobiology
Behavioral Neurology
Sleep and Dream Science

Altered States: Toward a Science of the Brain-Mind
Transcendental Meditation
Eye Movement Redirection Therapy
Substance Abuse
Alcohol
Cocaine
Amphetamine
Prozac
LSD

Brain-Mind Dream Interpretation: A New Project for Scientific Psychology
Laboratory Dream—1/2/2012
Commentary

Biography

Allan Hobson

"With an intriguing integration of psychodynamic theory and modern sleep research, this book presents a unique understanding of dreaming and its importance. The author looks at the current understanding of sleep and dreams to help with a more modern understanding of psychoanalytic thinking. The book is written for a wide-ranging audience of individuals in psychiatry, neurology, and brain sciences, as well as those interested in a more philosophical understanding of human consciousness."
—Michael Easton, MD, Rush University Medical Center