1st Edition
The Significance of Dreams Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with... Read more
PART I: CLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER ONE - The re-awakening of psychoanalytic theories of dreams and dreaming; CHAPTER TWO - Dreams and play in child analysis today; CHAPTER THREE - The manifest dream is the real dream: the changing relationship between theory and practice in the interpretation of dreams; CHAPTER FOUR - Changes in dreams - from a psychoanalysis with a traumatised, chronic depressed patient; PART II: EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER FIVE - Dreams as subject of psychoanalytical treatment research; CHAPTER SIX - The work at the gate - discussion of the papers of Juan Pablo Jimenez and Horst Kachele; PART III: CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATIONS CHAPTER SEVEN - When theories touch: an attempted integration and reformulation of dream theory; CHAPTER EIGHT - 'It's only a dream': physiological and developmental contributions to the feeling of reality; CHAPTER NINE - Discussion of Steven J. Ellman's and Lissa Weinstein's chapters PART IV: CLINICAL AND EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH IN ONGOING PROJECTS AND DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER TEN - Changes in dreams of chronic depressed patients: the Frankfurt fMRI/EEG study (FRED); CHAPTER ELEVEN - Traumatic dreams: symbolisation gone astray; CHAPTER TWELVE - Communicative functions of dream telling; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ADHD - illness or symptomatic indicator for trauma? A case study from the therapy comparison study on hyperactive children at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - No intermediate space for dreaming? Findings of the EVA study with children at risk; PART V: DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Orders of the imaginary - Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and the literature of classical modernity;
Biography
Peter Fonagy
