Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie
June 1, 1980
M. Koukkou, Dietrich Lehmann
27 citations
The paper presents a functional model of the brain; this model uses psychophysiological mechanisms to explain dream formation, without postulating specific dream processes; the same mechanisms serve to explain neurotic thinking (the basis of neurotic behaviour), and its psychotherapeutic correction. The description of the model includes a synopsis of selected publications from the fields of...
eScholarship@McGill
1979
Douglas Ross. Cann
This research investigated Carl Jung's theories as a means of understanding dreams and their relationship to personality structure. Jung's theories are shown to be consistent with recent theories of dream function and with research findings concerning dreaming sleep. Building on previous research, a general dimension for classifying dream content--degree of archetypality--is discussed, and...
Sleep
September 1978
A Rechtschaffen
Dreams are descirbed as "single-minded," meaning that they tend to be unaccompanied by other, simultaneous streams of thought and imagery. Four manifestations of single-mindedness are discussed: (1) the absence of a reflective awareness that one is dreaming while the dream is in progress; (2) the absence of alternative images and thoughts while attending to the primary dream content; (3) the...
Perspectives in biology and medicine
June 1, 1978
Douglas P. Hobson
1 citation
BRIEF PROPOSAL "PERITHAN EXPERIENCE": NAMING THE BEYOND DOUGLAS P. HOBSON* Man's pursuit of knowledge about Ufe after death has taken him into many areas and strange, unexplored frontiers of human experience. Fettered frequently by a nagging fear of death and yet goaded by his persistent curiosity of the mysterious, man has in some fashion found ways of familiarizing himself with death. In this...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1978
Derek A. Stern, Graham S. Saayman, Stephen Touyz
13 citations
This experiment tested the hypothesis that demand characteristics, as outlined by Orne (1962), may affect dream content. Twelve subjects, allocated to two matched groups balanced for age and sex, were selected on the basis of good dream recall from 94 volunteer psychology I students. Subjects were involved in the study for 15 consecutive nights, three of which were laboratory recording nights,...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
October 1, 1977
D J Woods, S Ceol, G Ferrandez
Thirty-eight undergraduates completed the forced-choice form of the Test of Emotional Styles and participated in a 4-day dream recall study. Correlational analysis was performed with the three dimensions of emotional style and two dream report aspects as variables. The dimensions failed to correlate significantly with any of the dream report variables, although the dimensions intercorrelated...
Cortex
September 1, 1977
P Greenwood, D H Wilson, M S Gazzaniga
This paper addresses the question of right hemisphere involvement in the visual components of dreaming. The rationale derives from an observed relation between reports of visual agnosia accompanied by dream cessation and the literature on right hemisphere specialization for visuo-spatial processes. All night sleep EEGs were recorded from subjects with partial or complete section of the corpus...
American Journal of Psychiatry
October 1976
R Greenberg, C A Pearlman
The authors used sleep laboratory data to predict responses to psychiatric treatment. The predictions were based on the assumptions that REM latency reflects the need for dreaming and therefore the need for adaptation and that REM time reflects the capacity for the adaptive work associated with REM sleep. Dream recall and dream content were considered indicators of psychological mindedness and...
Journal of the Neurological Sciences
November 1, 1975
Christian Guilleminault, M Billiard, J Montplaisir et al.
Patients with daytime sleepiness present altered states of consciousness. The occurrence of these states impairs their professional, social and familial activities and may threaten life itself. The automatic behavior syndrome is characterized by continuation of mechanical activity and complete amnesia. Episodes lasting from a few seconds to several hours are correlated with repetitive...
Kybernetes
April 1, 1975
W. Stallings
In recent years, evidence has accumulated that there are four distinct states of consciousness under normal conditions; in addition to the three commonly experienced states of wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming, there is a fourth state achieved by various Eastern meditation techniques. A model of man is discussed that could account for these states. This model, inspired by the concepts of...