Essential Papers on Dreams (Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis)

Author: Melvin LanskyPublisher: NYU PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 0814750621ISBN 13: 978-0814750629Hardcover:ISBN 10: 0814750613ISBN 13: 978-0814750612This collection traces the history of psycho-analytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of dreams and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool- of the mind first, later of the psychoanalytic process and of pathology and loge predicaments, and finally as a tool to be integrated with other methods of investigation. About the Author Melvin R. Lansky is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Medical School, and Faculty, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute.