Dream, creativity, and madness in nineteenth-century France
James, TonyAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1995.
Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Dreams
Creative ability
Mental illness
Hallucinations and illusions
Psychology and literature
Hallucinations
Medicine in Literature
Dreams
Mental Disorders
History of Medicine
History, 19th Century
Perceptual Disorders
Imagination
History
History, Modern 1601-
Literature
Sleep
Psychiatry and Psychology
Cognition
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Humanities
Psychophysiology
Neurologic Manifestations
Mental Processes
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Signs and Symptoms
Nervous System Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Diseases
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences
Social Sciences