Finding Meaning in Dreams

1. Front Matter

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2. The Scientific Study of Dream Content

   • G. William Domhoff

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3. The Hall/Van de Castle System of Content Analysis

   • G. William Domhoff

   Pages 9-37

4. The Quality of the Data

   • G. William Domhoff

   Pages 39-49

5. Normative Findings on American College Students

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   Pages 51-82

6. Age Differences in Dream Reports

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7. Cross-Cultural Studies of Dream Content

   • G. William Domhoff

   Pages 99-129

8. Consistency and Change in Long Dream Series

   • G. William Domhoff

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9. The Continuity between Dreams and Waking Life in Individuals and Groups

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   Pages 153-190

10. The Repetition Dimension in Dreams and Waking Cognition

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    Pages 191-212

11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-356

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Distinguished psychologist G. William Domhoff brings together-for the first time-all the necessary tools needed to perform quantitative studies of dream content using the rigorous system developed by Calvin S. Hall and Robert van de Castle. The book contains a comprehensive review of the literature, detailed coding rules, normative findings, and statistical tables.

• Action
• Content Analysis
• Cultural Studies
• Dream
• ETA
• coding
• cognition
• emotion
• interaction
• quality

`The best single account ever written of dream-content research....this book is one that no one with even a passing interest in dream phenomena can afford to miss.'
David Foulkes

`Written in a clear style...the chapters are well rounded with conclusions that integrate the most important results and relationships. Calvin Hall would have been delighted reading this book, which has convincingly continued and developed his ingenious work.'
Dreaming, December 1997

• University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

  G. William Domhoff

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