This fascinating and highly original book presents a longitudinal systematic study of the earliest form of human dreaming in a child, from ages 4 through 10.
Claudio Colace draws upon his extensive research on childrens dreams, his expertise in brain science and an intimate knowledge of a single subject, his son Marco, to demonstrate the validity of an ontogenetic approach to the understanding of dream processes. The availability of first-hand information about the daytime experiences of the authors son in relation to dream contents, as well as the longitudinal approach of the study, prove to be useful for a qualitative in-depth analysis of the nature and function of infantile dreams and of the changes that occur in the dreaming process as the child grows, from the early forms to more complex ones. Affirming the significance of Freuds explorations of infantile dreaming, this book attests to the nature of dreaming as a meaningful psychic act rather than the result of random processes.
Expanding beyond a purely psychotherapeutic context, the book analyzes the development of dreams systematically and in relation to Freuds theories on the human mind, making it an important read for clinicians, scholars and researchers interested in dream functions, child development and psychodynamic theory.
Recenzijas
In his new book, The Dreams of a Child, Claudio Colace details a seven-year longitudinal study of his sons dreams. This book takes readers on a journey into the developmental course of dreaming and vividly shows how dreams reach a crescendo of dynamic complexity in childhood. The Dreams of a Child is a must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary Freudian view of childrens dreams. Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, Professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Introduction Part 1: Methodological aspects of the study
1. The
credibility of children's dream reports
2. The methodology of this study Part
2: The debut of dreaming activity: infantile dreams (ages four to five)
3.
The predominance of clear wish-fulfilment dreams
4. Nature of the wishes
appearing in dream reports
5. Daytime sources and triggering conditions of
clear wish-fulfilment dreams
6. How do dreams act? The modus operandi of
clear wish-fulfilment dreams
7. Less common forms of dreaming in infancy Part
3: The decline of infantile forms of dreaming (ages six to seven)
8. Changes
in dream repertoire and developments in wish-fulfilment dreaming
9.
Development of dream bizarreness and dream-work operations
10. Bad dreams
11.
Ego and super-ego development and changes in dreaming Part 4: Dreaming in
middle childhood (ages eight to ten)
12. Changes in dream repertoire and
developments in wish-fulfilment dreams at ages 8-10
13. Dream distortion and
new dream-works operations
14. Changes in bad dreams Part 5: The meaning and
function of infantile dreams
15. The function of dreams: the
affective-reestablishment (AR) hypothesis
16. Infantile forms of dreaming in
adults
17. A new ontogenetic psychological-psychoanalytic model of dream
Conclusions
Claudio Colace, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychotherapist at the Operational Unit of Psychology of the ASL Viterbo (National Health Service Office, Italy), where he works at the Outpatient Psychology Department and at the Center for Drug Addictions of Civita Castellana (Viterbo). He obtained an M.D. in Psychology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", a post-graduate Master in Neurophysiology of Consciousness State, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a Ph.D. in Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the author of scientific contributions published in The American Journal on Addictions, Neuropsychoanalysis, Alcohol and Drug Review, Sleep and Hypnosis, Sleep and Sleep Research. He is the author of Childrens Dreams: From Freuds Observations to Modern Dream Research (London, 2010, Karnac Books); Drug Dreams: Clinical and Research Implications of Dreams about Drugs in Drug-addicted Patients (London, 2014, Karnac Books); and of some Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences entries: "Dream", "Latent Dream Content" and "Manifest Dream Contents" (eds. V. Zeigler-Hill and T. Shackelford, Springer International Publisher, 2018).
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