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:

1 online resource (viii,187p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This study examines dreaming as we normally understand it, active stories in which the dreamer is an actor. It explores the relationship between dreaming and waking reflective self-awareness and the development of the cognitive processes.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Challenging the Assumptions

2. How to Study Children’s Dreams

3. The Two Studies

4. Ages Three to Five

5. Ages Five to Nine

6. Ages Nine to Fifteen

7. Dreaming

8. Consciousness

Appendix:Two Children’s Dream Reports over Time

References

Index

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780674037168

0674037162

OCLC:

923112132