The book, first published in 2009, is part of the Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis, focusing on a specific academic or professional field. It offers insights and analyses relevant to its subject matter, contributing to ongoing discussions and research. The publication is intended for scholars, practitioners, or students who seek to deepen their understanding of the topic.
Exploring the intersection of psychodynamic theory and neuroscience, the author presents insights from leading thinkers in the field of dream research. The book delves into the complexities of dreams, offering a comprehensive understanding that balances scientific rigor with psychological depth. Through engaging discussions and analyses, it invites readers to consider the significance of dreams in both personal and broader contexts, enriching the dialogue surrounding this enigmatic aspect of human experience.
Introduction -- How the mindbrain transforms the world -- The mindbrain creates its own version of the world -- Condensation, interobjects, and categories -- Displacement -- Metaphor -- Introduction -- Metaphor and bodily experience -- How metaphor helps us understand dreams -- Dream as allegory -- Dreams pictorialize metaphors -- Combined metaphors, modified metaphors, and mixed metaphors -- Nonlinguistic metaphor : music, visual arts, and advertising -- Synaesthesia and synkinesia -- Metaphoric mappings between concepts and our bodies -- Blending theory vs. cognitive metaphor theory -- Metaphors gone awry -- Metaphor and transference -- Metaphor and rebus -- Puns : linguistic and nonlinguistic -- Homoforms and homomelodies -- Metonymy -- Symbols -- Dreams and the mindbrain's structuring of experience -- Psychological defenses and dreams -- Working with dreams clinically -- New ways of working with dreams -- The dream guides its own analysis : how to work with dreams over time -- Group dream interpretation -- Dreams, knowledge, memory, emotion, and the mindbrain -- How neuropsychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis can learn from each other -- Elusive illusions : reality judgment and reality assignment in dreams and waking life -- When your mindbrain knows things that you don't -- Memory, knowledge, and dreams -- Language of thought and the wakingwork -- List of dreams -- References
Exploring the profound impact of AIDS, the book challenges preconceived notions about health, mortality, sexuality, and drug use. Through insightful contributions from seasoned clinicians, it dismantles prevalent myths surrounding the disease, encouraging a deeper understanding of its complexities. The narrative emphasizes the need for a reevaluation of societal values and personal relationships in the face of illness, ultimately fostering a more compassionate perspective on those affected by AIDS.
An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation
Exploring the concept of the 'mindbrain,' the book delves into how our perceptions are processed and transformed into dreams, thoughts, and artistic expressions. Mark J. Blechner presents a unified view of the mind and brain, emphasizing their interconnectedness and the implications this has for understanding human creativity and cognition. Through this lens, readers gain insights into the intricate relationship between dreaming and thinking, as well as the creative process itself.
With photographs from picture postcards and amateur collections dating as far back as the late 1800s this book captures the boom years of the East Coast herring industry. Travelling North to South from Scrabster to Wick it captures the strongly visual and diverse subjects providing us with such memorable images as the Herring Girls ; the women gutters and packers who followed the herring boats as they tracked the shoals around the coast, the launch of the steamer Gowan (FR232) as steam began to replace sail at the turn of the century and the Aberdeen vessel Keith Hall aground in fog at Skifigoe on the west coast of Orkney in November of 1921.