The
Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic
Creation, by Mark J. Blechner, Routledge, April 25, 2018
In The
Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic
Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be
understood as a single unit–the ‘mindbrain’–which manipulates our raw
perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts, and
artistic creation.
This
book explores how dreams are key to understanding mental processes, and how
working with dreams clinically with individuals and groups provides an
essential route towards achieving transformation within the psychoanalytic
process. Covering such key topics as knowledge, emotion, metaphor, and memory,
this book sets out a radical new agenda for understanding the importance of
dreams in human thought and their clinical importance in psychoanalysis.
Blechner builds on his previous work and takes it much further, drawing on the
latest neuroscientific findings to set out a new way of how the mindbrain
constructs reality, while providing guidance on how best to help people
understand their dreams.
The
Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic
Creation will appeal to will appeal to
psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cognitive neuroscientists who
want new ways to explore how people think and understand the world. (amazon)
