This accessible guide to dream interpretation is designed to help clinicians incorporate work
with dreams more effectively into therapy. The author integrates psychodynamic …

During dreaming, we experience a wake-like hallucinatory reality, however with restricted
reflective abilities: in the face of a bizarre dream environment, we do not realize that we are …

“I had a most rare vision,... a dream, past the wit of man to say what it was... Man is but an
ass if he go about to expound upon this dream... me thought I was... there is no man can tell …

We experience affect—emotions and mood—not only when we are awake but also during
dreaming. Despite considerable research, existing theories and empirical findings disagree …

Standard treatments for nightmares focus on waking activities, with consequences for
subsequent sleep. An alternative strategy may be to provide people with a novel way to …

Dreams are often believed to be “symbolic” and thus categorically distinct from the “ordinary”
thoughts of waking cognition. But to the contrary, emerging evidence suggests that dreams …

This historical analysis examined dream theories developed during the period 1960–1996.
Each theory was investigated, explained, analyzed, compared and contrasted, and …