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Only Mark Solms even indirectly approached this issue. His novel approach to dreaming and its alleged loss following brain damage is useful despite both methodological shortcoming and theoretical errors. Solms cannot know, from questionnaire responses, what his subjects experienced during their sleep and, even if he performed sleep lab studies, which he did not, he should be more cautious in accepting the conclusion that dreaming (as against the recall thereof) absolutely ceased after stroke. In my opinion, even these limited and flawed data fail to support psychoanalytic theory to which Solms is married and I am divorced. The continuity position of John Antrobus and Michael Schredl strike me as reasonable but misguided in that they ignore the discontinuity on which my theory depends. I am very disappointed in my peers for their failure to respond to my appeal for the formal analysis of conscious states. It would appear that there is little enthusiasm for psychology among brain scientists.
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Hobson, J.A. (2014). Lecture I: Psychology. In: Tranquillo, N. (eds) Dream Consciousness. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07296-8_42
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