1st Edition
The Mindbrain and Dreams An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation
1: INTRODUCTION PART 1: HOW THE MINDBRAIN TRANSFORMS THE WORLD 2: THE MINDBRAIN CREATES ITS OWN VERSION OF THE WORLD 3: CONDENSATION, INTEROBJECTS, AND CATEGORIES 4: DISPLACEMENT 5: METAPHOR 6: PUNS – LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC 7: HOMOFORMS AND HOMOMELODIES 8: METONYMY 9: SYMBOLS 10: DREAMS AND THE MINDBRAIN’S STRUCTURING OF EXPERIENCE 11: PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES AND DREAMS PART 2: WORKING WITH DREAMS CLINICALLY 12: NEW WAYS OF WORKING WITH DREAMS 13: THE DREAM GUIDES ITS OWN ANALYSIS: HOW TO WORK WITH DREAMS OVER TIME 14: GROUP DREAM INTERPRETATION PART 3: DREAMS, KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY, EMOTION, AND THE MINDBRAIN 15: HOW NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS AND CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER 16: ELUSIVE ILLUSIONS: REALITY JUDGMENT AND REALITY ASSIGNMENT IN DREAMS AND WAKING LIFE 17: WHEN YOUR MINDBRAIN KNOWS THINGS THAT YOU DON’T 18: MEMORY, KNOWLEDGE, AND DREAMS 19: LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT AND THE WAKINGWORK; LIST OF DREAMS
Biography
Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at William Alanson White Institute. He has taught at Columbia University, Yale University, and New York University.
