Title: Memory in mind and brain : what dream imagery reveals /
Authors: Reiser, Morton F., 1919-
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Dreams; Imagination; Memory; Neurobiology; Psychoanalysis; Memory; Dreams; Imagery (Psychology); Mind and body; Psychoanalysis; Neurobiology
Abstract: What is the relationship between memory and consciousness? How do dreams convey meanings" Can Freud's theories coexist with modern neuroscientific knowledge? In this book focusing on the role of memory in dreaming, the author integrates data from neuroscience, psychology, biology, artificial intelligence, and psychoanalysis to answer key questions about how the brain works. -- Publisher description.
Contents: Remembering and forgetting in dreaming sleep: the riddle of the dream -- Sense and nonsense in dreams -- The dream: the sleeping mind at work -- A serious methodological challenge -- Memory and dreams in clinical psychoanalytic process: the role of the analyst's memory -- The brain awake: perceiving and remembering: there is more to seeing than meets the eye -- Perception, memory, and feeling: there is more to memories than remembering -- The sleeping brain: the physiology of dreaming sleep -- Cabbages and kings -- Mind, metaphor, and brain: confronting the conceptual challenge -- Revising dream theory -- Epilogue: Another dream.