The New Psychology of Dreaming [antikvár]

FOREWORD This is a book about dreaming that will have a decisive impact upon anyone who takes dreams seriously, be he experimentalist, theorist, or therapist. In putting it this flatly my intent is not to be provocative, but to state as simply and directly as I can my estimate of the full worth of the author's effort. He has succeeded in writing a book about the psychology of dreaming that is comprehensively rooted in what has gone before, alertly oriented to what is going on now, and discriminatingly diseeming about ideas that are apt to germinate more completely in the future. The timing is precisely right. Someone had to organize, within the covers of a single book, the contributions of a number of people whose ideas developed more or less in separation and whose work, in some instances at least, did not receive the attention it should, e.g., Lowy, Angyal. Someone had to reevaluate their contribution in the light of the enormous amount of new data now available to us from experimental sources as well as to attempt the task of integrating the novel insights each has provided. The author, despite the complexity of the subject and the limitations of a linear medium, has somehow managed to bring about a happening of this sort. His success lies in the combined use of three techniques: first, consummate skill in identifying and preserving the living core in the contributions of those who have gone before; second, a remarkably apt selection of quotations allowing each writer to speak for himself; and, finally, the injection at just the right places of original orchestration. To