Dreams & Emotional Adaptation
Author | : Robert Langs |
Publisher | : Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781891944055 |
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Author | : Robert Langs |
Publisher | : Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781891944055 |
Author | : Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Dreams |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Deirdre Barrett |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-10-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780674006904 |
Finally, this volume concludes with a look at the potential "traumas of normal life," such as divorce, bereavement, and life-threatening illness, and the role of dreams in working through normal grief and loss
Author | : G. William Domhoff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262544210 |
A comprehensive neurocognitive theory of dreaming based on the theories, methodologies, and findings of cognitive neuroscience and the psychological sciences. G. William Domhoff’s neurocognitive theory of dreaming is the only theory of dreaming that makes full use of the new neuroimaging findings on all forms of spontaneous thought and shows how well they explain the results of rigorous quantitative studies of dream content. Domhoff identifies five separate issues—neural substrates, cognitive processes, the psychological meaning of dream content, evolutionarily adaptive functions, and historically invented cultural uses—and then explores how they are intertwined. He also discusses the degree to which there is symbolism in dreams, the development of dreaming in children, and the relative frequency of emotions in the dreams of children and adults. During dreaming, the neural substrates that support waking sensory input, task-oriented thinking, and movement are relatively deactivated. Domhoff presents the conditions that have to be fulfilled before dreaming can occur spontaneously. He describes the specific cognitive processes supported by the neural substrate of dreaming and then looks at dream reports of research participants. The “why” of dreaming, he says, may be the most counterintuitive outcome of empirical dream research. Though the question is usually framed in terms of adaptation, there is no positive evidence for an adaptive theory of dreaming. Research by anthropologists, historians, and comparative religion scholars, however, suggests that dreaming has psychological and cultural uses, with the most important of these found in religious ceremonies and healing practices. Finally, he offers suggestions for how future dream studies might take advantage of new technologies, including smart phones.
Author | : Matthew Walker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1501144316 |
"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.
Author | : Owen Flanagan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2001-05-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019534958X |
What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, "free riders," irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or to create meaning, even when we're sleeping. Rejecting Freud's theory of manifest and latent content--of repressed wishes appearing in disguised form--Flanagan shows how brainstem activity during sleep generates a jumbled profusion of memories, images, thoughts, emotions, and desires, which the cerebral cortex then attempts to shape into a more or less coherent story. Such dream-narratives range from the relatively mundane worries of non REM sleep to the fantastic confabulations of deep REM that resemble psychotic episodes in their strangeness. But however bizarre these narratives may be, they can shed light on our mental life, our well being, and our sense of self. Written with clarity, lively wit, and remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life.
Author | : Louis Breger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Dreams |
ISBN | : |
Hypothesizes that dreams may serve a unique function in integrating affectively aroused information into existing memory systems.
Author | : William H. Moorcroft |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-01-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0306474255 |
Designed primarily as a text this volume is an up-to-date and integrated overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders associated with sleep. It is accessibly written with specially boxed material that enhances the text. Authored by a researcher/clinician/professor with more than 25 years of experience in sleep studies, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming provides a solid basis for those who are not expert in this area. It offers a good foundation for those who will continue sleep studies, while at the same time offering enough information for those who will apply this knowledge in other ways such as clinicians in their individual practices or researchers for whom sleep may be part of a specific study. It is an excellent text for courses on sleep at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Author | : Arthur Schnitzler |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780241620229 |
'Her fragrant body and burning red lips' A married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century Vienna. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series
Author | : Ernest Hartmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199751773 |
This work presents a comprehensive theory of dreaming based on many years of psychological and biological research by Ernest Hartmann and others.