The Nature and Functions of Dreaming
Ernest Hartmann, MD Oxford University Press, 2010 The Nature and Function of Dreaming presents a comprehensive theory of dreaming based on many years of research by Ernest Hartmann and his collaborators. Critical to this theory is the concept of the Central Image. Hartmann starts with his repeated finding that dreams of being swept away by a tidal wave, or something similar, are common among adults who have recently experienced a trauma – a fire, an attack, or a rape. These Central Images clearly picture not the experience but the...
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Presenter Murray Schwartz, Ph.D. Presented by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Andover Newton community invited.
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