Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
- 作者:David,Foulkes
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2002-09-15
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0674009711
- ISBN13:9780674009714
- 裝訂:平裝 / 12.1 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm / 普通級 / 初版
David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it--active stories in which the dreamer is an actor--appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.
Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.