Investigations of dream mentation in brain damaged patients have shed some light on the controversial issue of cerebral lateralization of dreaming. To examine further the relationships between brain function and dreaming, we studied REM sleep dream recall and content in four patients having undergone right functional or anatomical hemispherectomy and eight matched control subjects. Patients wer...

Dreams reported in psychoanalysis may reflect not only the transference of tht> patient, but also the countertransference, counterresistance, and counteranxicty of the psychoanalyst. Because of the communicative capacity of dreams, the' analyst may use the patit>nt's dreams as supervi­ sion. Objective signs are described that may indicate countenransfer­ ence interference in the analyst's dream...

With the declaration of American Independence in 1776, there emerges a new spirit namely ‘American Dream’. This paper intends to show the consequences of hankering after the ‘American Dream’ in the lives of Willy Loman and Tommy Wilhelm in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day respectively. These two persons find themselves under a constant pressure of obtaining so...

Ironic control theory proposes that suppressing thoughts leads to increased occurrence of the suppressed thought because monitoring for the unwanted thought leads to intrusions. This study investigated the influence of suppressing unwanted thoughts on dream content. One hundred participants who had high or low levels of tendency to suppress unwanted thoughts nominated an intrusive thought, and ...

In order to determine whether varying degrees of traditionality would be manifested in specific behaviors that would be present in women's waking and dreaming life, 100 women between the ages of 22 and 79, 12% of whom were African American, were administered a number of self-report measures of psychological well-being and were asked to complete ongoing dream diaries for a 2-week period. These i...

Happiness is the goal of American dream; a means to reach happiness wealth; in following turn, wealth cannot be gained without optimism, opportunities, and hard work. Meanwhile, massive use conceptual metaphor raises question whether all domains, namely work, wealth, were expressed Great Gatsby whose theme dream. The data collection technique was document analysis. differentiated from non-data,...

Alfred Adler (1870-1937), an Austrian psychiatrist at one time closely associated with Sigmund Freud, separated from him to develop an alternative to psychoanalysis known as individual psychology (Ansbacher and Ansbacher, 19 5 6) . Adler did not devote the same degree of attention as did Freud to dream phenomena, and his ideas are neither extensive nor consistent enough to constitute a genuine ...

It has been shown that the E7 protein of the high-risk HPV-16 transforms cells in vitro and binds pRB, p107 and p130, so called pocket proteins associated in cells with DREAM proteins, while that of the low-risk HPV-6 does not transform cells and binds p130 but not pRB or p107. These facts may indicate that p130 is essential for the HPV life cycle. To gain further insight into the relationship ...

The merits of Freudian dream theory continue to be debated and both supporters and critics appeal to empirical evidence to support their respective positions. What receives much less attention is the theoretical coherency of either Freudian dream theory or alternative perspectives. This paper examines Freudian dream theory and J. Allan Hobson's alternative position by addressing the role of mot...