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Frederick L. Coolidge, Ph.D.
Copyright 2002
- This book teaches you to not worry about having the proper stance and
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- Tennis instructor Coolidge has a dual career as a Professor of
Psychology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. For
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Frederick L. Coolidge, Ph.D.
Copyright 2002
- This book provides an overview of sleep processes, theories of
dreams and dreaming (from Freud to Jung to Gestalt theory to Sagan),
and gives the most up-to-date thinking in the field about how dreams
may be used in therapeutic settings.
- Originally aimed at professional psychotherapists, the book is so
clearly written that it is easily accessible for readers with
little or no background in psychology or psychiatry.
- Dr. Coolidge gets right to the
point and explains how therapists make sense of those strange and
interesting dreams that you sometimes have and that sometimes seem to
haunt you.
The book is organized as follows:
Preface:
An introduction to dream interpretation
Myths of dream interpretation: A dream glossary
Psychology: The field of dreams
A new theory on the origin and meaning of dreams: Ernest Hartmann
Chapter 1: The Biological and Evolutionary Foundations of Sleep
and Dreams
Stages of sleep
Why do we sleep?
The Hobson and McCarley Activation-Synthesis hypothesis
The Crick and Mitchison Reverse Learning Hypothesis
Winson's Memory-Processing Hypothesis
A Triune Sleep Model (Recuperative value, Adaptive Value, and
Mnemonitive Value)
The Mnemonitive value of sleep and dreams
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Dream
Mesopotamians
Egyptians
Jewish and Christian writings
Jewish dream interpretations: The Pitron Chalomot
Greek dream interpretation: The Oneiroctirica
Buddhists
Hindus
Chinese texts
Islamic religion
Mormon religion
Chapter 3: Freudian Dream
The manifest and latent meaning of dreams
Dreams as wish fulfillment
A physiological explanation for flying dreams
A dream explanation for reports of alien abductions
The hypnogogic jerk
Chapter 4: Jungian Dream Interpretation
The compensatory nature of dreams
The archetypal nature of dreams
The five major archetypes of the psyche
Animus and Anima
The Persona
The Shadow
The Self Archetype and individuation
Other archetypal themes
Chapter 5: Gestalt Therapy Dream Interpretation
Gestalt Therapy dream interpretation
Gestalt Therapy
Here and Now
Chapter 6: The Teleological Nature of Dreams:
History of prophetic dreams
Possibilities for the causation of prophetic dreams (Mere coincidence,
prodromal dreams, probability estimators, divine inspiration,
synchronicity)
Chapter 7: The Recurring Nature of Dreams:
Freud
Sagan
Jung
Perls
Chapter 8: A Synthesis of Dream Interpretation Techniques
Principle 1: Dreams form a hierarch of unfinished business
Principle 2: People have a tendency to avoid and alienate the
holes in their personalities despite their compensating need for
wholeness
Principle 3: Have the dreamer become part of the dream and write a
script
Principle 4: Listen carefully to the language of the dreamer
Principle 5: Everything in the dream is a projected aspect of the
dreamer
Case studies
Suggested readings.
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About the Author
Professor Frederick L. Coolidge, Ph.D., received his BA, MA, and
Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Florida and completed a
two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at
Shand’s Teaching Hospital, Gainesville, Florida. For the past 30
years, Professor Coolidge has taught and conducted research at the
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His scientific publications
on the sleep process and on dreaming are widely recognized
internationally.
Professor Coolidge is also an expert in the use of hypnosis in the
enhancement of sports performance. He has hypnotized entire teams,
including the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs women’s
basketball team, women’s softball team, and the men and women’s
tennis teams. Another of his books, Samurai Tennis: Using Psychology to Win,
is available at www.psychologysoftware.com.
Professor Coolidge has lectured to parents of young tennis players on
behalf of former Davis Cup player, Dennis Ralston. He has won three
teaching awards at the University of Colorado and is a two-time
Fulbright Fellowship recipient.
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