Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness
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Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness
Harvard University Press, 1999
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780674009714
Description
David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it-active stories in which the dreamer is an actor-appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.
Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Challenging the Assumptions 2. How to Study Children's Dreams The Justification of Sleep-Laboratory Methods Are Sleep-Laboratory Dreams "Real" Dreams? 3. The Two Studies The Longitudinal Study The Cross-Sectional Study 4. Ages Three to Five Paucity of Dreams
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: hard ISBN 9780674116207
Description
This text argues that dreaming as it is normally understood - active stories in which the dreamer is an actor - appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. David Foulkes argues that this late development suggests an equally late waking self-awareness. Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytical over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.
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