Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
2002
Robert R Holt
Freud always defined the primary process metapsychologically, but he described the ways it shows up in dreams, parapraxes, jokes, and symptoms with enough observational detail to make it possible to create an objective, reliable scoring system to measure its manifestations in Rorschach responses, dreams, TAT stories, free associations, and other verbal texts. That system can identify signs of...
Advances in Consciousness Research
December 14, 2001
It is by now commonly agreed that the proper study of consciousness requires a multidisciplinary approach which focuses on the varieties and dimensions of conscious experience from different angles. This book, which is based on a workshop held at the University of Skövde, Sweden, provides a microcosm of the emerging discipline of consciousness studies and focuses on some important but neglected...
Journal of Sleep Research
December 1, 2001
Carlo Cipolli, R Bolzani, Giovanni Tuozzi et al.
The ability to process recently acquired knowledge is clearly maintained during sleep. Here we assess whether and how far the sleeper controls this processing (in a non-volitional and non-conscious manner). We posit that during sleep, the cognitive concerns of previous waking may guide access to, and processing of, items of declarative knowledge with which those concerns are associated. In a...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
November 1, 2001
D Watson
The author examined the associations among sleep-related experiences (e.g., hypnagogic hallucinations, nightmares, waking dreams, and lucid dreams), dissociation, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality traits in 2 large student samples. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that (a) dissociation and schizotypy are strongly correlated-yet distinguishable-constructs, and (b) the...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
October 1, 2001
Paula Anne Franklin
12 citations
Lippmann, Paul. Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2000. xii + 264 pp. $45.00. Writing like a poet, with the wisdom of a rabbi, in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, Lippmann argues against the current practice in psychoanalysis of ignoring dreams. Lamenting that the use of dreams in therapy has fallen out of favor to be replaced by over-preoccupation with...
Dreaming
June 1, 2001
Stanley Krippner, Laura V. Faith
13 citations
The purpose of this study was to identify “exotic” (i.e., puzzling, unusual, extraordinary, anomalous) dreams in a sample of 1,666 dream reports from six countries, and to make gender comparisons as well. Research participants were members of dream seminars that one of us conducted between 1990 and 1998 in Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Only one dream report...
The Southern literary journal
March 1, 2001
Mark Canada
7 citations
Phrenology is no longer to be laughed at," Edgar Allan Poe wrote in an 1836 review of Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology."It is no longer laughed at by men of common understanding.It has assumed the majesty of science; and, as a science, ranks among the most important which can engage the attention of thinking beings" (Essays and Reviews 329).Poe, of course, counted himself among...
Medical Hypotheses
March 2001
W S Von Arx
Since the cerebral cortex is deeply infolded (to provide a large surface area) and the celerity of neuropropagation across Golgi's layer 1 (the 'molecular feltwork' of the outer brain) has the slowest rate possible in living tissue, we suggest that consciousness, sentience and cognition are wave interference phenomena related to electroencephalographic (EEG) 'rhythms' that appear and disappear...
Dreaming
March 1, 2001
Montague Ullman
7 citations
Social as well as personal referents appear in dreams and, when recognized as such, provide insight into how unresolved social issues seep into the personal domain at an unconscious level. Dream-sharing groups (because of the time available and other factors) offer a particularly favorable opportunity to observe this interplay. The truth-telling nature of dreaming consciousness not only exposes...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2001
Tara W. Lumpkin
Perceptual diversity allows human beings to access knowledge through a variety of perceptual processes, rather than merely through everyday waking reality. Many of these perceptual processes are transrational altered states of consciousness (meditation, trance, dreams, imagination) and are not considered valid processes for accessing knowledge by science (which is based primarily upon...