Dreams in myth, medicine, and movies / Sharon Packer.

By:

Packer, Sharon

Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.Description: x, 235 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0275972437 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Dreams

DDC classification:

154.6/3 21

LOC classification:

BF1078 .P28 2002

Contents:

Before We Begin -- Dreams and Definitions -- Myth and Meaning -- Film and Photography -- Cinema and Cyberspace -- Sleep and Social Control -- Sleep and Sci-Fi -- Deities and Demons -- Shamans and Sorcerers -- Reason and Romance -- Symbolism and Surrealism -- Psyche and Soul -- Body and Brain -- Foretelling the Future.

Summary: Publisher description: Cinema--invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed--primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian dream theories to their art to make the public aware of "modern" ideas about dreams. Most of our current cultural consciousness about the psychological value of dreams is traced to classical and contemporary cinema. This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today. Scholars and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cinema, medicine, and religion may find this volume useful. The book also examines academic psychiatry's increased emphasis in dream study on neuropsychiatry and psychopharmocology, as well as managed care's decreased compensation for dream therapy.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.

Publisher description: Cinema--invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed--primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian dream theories to their art to make the public aware of "modern" ideas about dreams. Most of our current cultural consciousness about the psychological value of dreams is traced to classical and contemporary cinema. This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today. Scholars and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cinema, medicine, and religion may find this volume useful. The book also examines academic psychiatry's increased emphasis in dream study on neuropsychiatry and psychopharmocology, as well as managed care's decreased compensation for dream therapy.

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