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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packer, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1 Before We Begin

2 Dreams and Definitions

3 Myth and Meaning

4 Film and Photography

5 Cinema and Cyberspace

6 Sleep and Social Control

7 Science Fiction and Sleep

8 Deities and Demons

9 Shamans and Sorcerers

10 Reason and Romance

11 Symbolism and Surrealism

12 Psyche and Soul

13 Body and Brain

14 Foretelling the Future

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9798400642487

9786610315314

9781280315312

1280315318

9780313012105

0313012105

OCLC:

614545528