Dream Reader by Anthony Shafton

Dream Reader by Anthony Shafton

A comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding dreams. If you can have only one book on dreams, this is the one to have.

Dream Reader is a uniquely comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding and working with dreams. The general reader interested in exploring the world of dreams could not obtain a better introduction and grounding than from this book. Academic psychologists, therapists, and professional dreamworkers alike will find it to be an incomparable survey and sampling of the growing literature on dreaming.

In Part I, Shafton summarizes sleep laboratory discoveries, then considers theories about dream generation and meaning that have arisen from these discoveries. Part II discusses major Euro-American schools of dream interpretation in the twentieth century: Freud, Jung, Existential, Cultural, and Gestalt. Also included are chapters dealing with various topics of interest: the dream styles of people of both genders, and of people with certain psychiatric diagnoses; non-interpretive approaches to dreamwork; dream incubation; lucid dreaming; dream re-entry; dreams of the blind; post-traumatic nightmares; and many more. Dream Reader provides an integrated review of the whole literature of dream psychology-the clinical, academic, and also the serious popular literature. It also presents sizeable extracts from the original sources for the reader's own critical evaluation.

"Dream Reader by Anthony Shafton is a book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading itThis is the first definitive and comprehensive sourcebook to cover the classical, the research, and the current theoretical contributions to our understanding of the nature and usefulness of dreams. The author has covered an incredible body of literature, subjecting all that he has read to evaluative and integrative commentary." — Montague Ullman, M. D., co-author of Dream Telepathy and Working With Dreams, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Shafton, Anthony: - ANTHONY SHAFTON was born in Chicago in 1937. This is his fifth book. He has written on subjects as diverse as dream psychology, African American cultural sociology, and the biological evolution of self-awareness in humans and other
primates. Shafton has always been a writer and independent scholar, with degrees from Harvard and Stanford Universities. Before retiring, he earned his living in a variety of occupations, including teacher, merchant seaman, craftsman and small businessman. After living all over the country and in England, he has been at home since 2012 in Reno, Nevada.

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ISBN 13	9780791426180
ISBN 10	0791426181
Title	Dream Reader
Author	Anthony Shafton
Series	Suny Series In Dream Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1995-07-01
Number of pages	692
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