6 papers in the library · publishing 2018-2022
Routledge eBooks April 19, 2022 Claudio Colace
This chapter deals with the problem of dream report credibility in young children. After a brief review of literature on this theme, the author reports guidelines in evaluating dream report credibility based on eight objective criteria obtained from large studies on children’s dreams.
Routledge eBooks April 19, 2022 Claudio Colace
In this chapter, the wishes that appear in the dreams of Marco’s first period are classified with respect to two basic criteria—that is, type of condition/state of the psychic apparatus (preconscious/conscious vs. unconscious) and parental approval or disapproval (i.e., prohibitions and rules coming from outside). Based on this latter criterion, we distinguish wishes into simple (unrepressed)...
April 17, 2018 Claudio Colace
The home-based study allowed the collection of dream reports from one child in two separate sessions at one year’s distance. Lisa (not her real name) was interviewed in the first session when she was four years and six months old, and later at five years and six months of age. Lisa was a good dream recaller. Apart from reporting, at the request of her mother, twelve dreams (five in the first...
April 17, 2018 Claudio Colace
In this chapter, I describe the formal characteristics of children’s dreams with respect to three indicators: the length of dream reports , the narrative complexity , and die measure of dream bizarreness.
April 17, 2018 Claudio Colace
Systematic research on Freud’s dream theory has been frequently hindered by the conviction that its hypothesis cannot be tested empirically. Actually, the studies on children’s dreams that I am presenting here are evidence of the contrary. These studies point out that it is possible to test empirically Freud’s hypotheses on the early forms of dreaming and that these tests are not irrelevant for...
Routledge eBooks April 17, 2018 Claudio Colace
The study of drug dreams has shown important implications for both the clinics and therapy of addiction rather than for general dream research and theory. Drug dreams are a phenomenon typical and exclusive of drug-addicted patients who, typically, show a craving for drugs. Drug dreams are a typical example of dreams that arise as a result of the deprivation of an important urge of the...