Overview
- Closes the cycle of Freud’s and Hobson’s interpretations of the putative functions of dreams
- Is unique in its ‘peer review’structure of seminal lectures followed by critical commentaries
- Makes clear a new theory on dreaming and presents an overview of a century of research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Library (VCIL, volume 3)
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Table of contents (44 chapters)
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Commentaries
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Response to Commentaries on the William James Lectures on Dream Consciousness
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About this book
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The audience is scientists with an interest in the field of sleep and, specifically, dreams. … This is a worthwhile contribution to the field of sleep and dreams. It provides evidence of sleep as a sequence of brain states that play a role in brain function, which include homeostatic functions and higher cognitive processes such as perception, decision making, learning, and consciousness.” (M. Isabel L. Crisostomo, Doody’s Book Reviews, February, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Allan Hobson (author) is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where he conducted research on Sleep and Dreaming as the Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. This book represents his thinking about human consciousness as expressed in the William James Lectures at Roehampton University. He has written 12 previous books and published over 200 original scientific articles. He indulges his interests in art and architecture at his US home East Burke, Vermont and with his Italian family in Messina, Sicily.
Nicholas Tranquillo (editor) has been associated with Allan Hobson since 1997 when he was a student in Psychology E1450, The Biopsychology of Waking, Sleeping and Dreaming. Over the intervening years, he has served as the manager of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he has been deeply involved and responsible for manuscript production having worked on six successful books. In the preparation of the present volume, he solicited and edited the commentaries as well as taking full responsibility for readying the book for publication. Complimenting his academic interests are commitments to culinary creation, remote and exotic travel and the love of opera. He lives in Salem, New Hampshire.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dream Consciousness
Book Subtitle: Allan Hobson’s New Approach to the Brain and Its Mind
Editors: Nicholas Tranquillo
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07296-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07295-1Published: 12 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38247-0Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07296-8Published: 01 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1571-3083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 256
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurochemistry, Metaphysics, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy