Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness / David Foulkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foulkes, David, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's dreams.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

viii, 187 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.

ISBN:

0674116208

OCLC:

39354219