Childrens Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
Childrens Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness By David Foulkes
1999 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0674116208 | PDF | 1 MB
1999 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0674116208 | PDF | 1 MB
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.