The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the
cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of
dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research
in cognitive neuroscience. Drawing on psychodynamic theorists and
neuroscientific researchers with equal fluency and grace, Mark
Blechner introduces the reader to a conversation of the finest
minds, from Freud to Jung, from Sullivan to Erikson, from Aserinksy
and Kleitman to Hobson, as the work toward an understanding of
dreams and dreaming that is both scientifically credible and
personally meaningful. The dream, in Blechner's elegantly conceived
overview, offers itself to the dreamer as an answer to a question
yet to be asked. Approached in thi open-ended manner, dreams come
to reveal the meaning-making systems of the unconscious in the
total absence of waking considerations of reality testing and
communicability. Systems of dream interpretation arise as helpful,
if inherently limited, strategies for apprehending this unconscious
quest for meaning. Whereas students will appreciate Blechner's
concise reviews of the various schools of dream interpretation,
teachers and supervisors will value his astute reexamination of the
very process of interpretating dreams, which includes the manner in
which group discussion of dreams may be employed to correct for
individual interpretive biases. Elegantly written, lucidly argued,
deftly synooptic but never ponderous in tone, The Dream Frontier
provides a fresh outlook on the century just passed along with the
keys to the antechambers of the new century's reinvestigation of
fundamental questions of conscious and unconscious mental life. It
transcends the typical limits of interdisciplinary reportage and
brings both researcher and clinician to the threshold of a new,
mutually enriching exploration of the dream frontier in search of
basic answers to basic questions.
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