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Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN10: 0674009711
ISBN13: 9780674009714
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 2002
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.56 Width: 4.98 Depth: 8.04
Language: English

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.

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