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Daydreaming and Fantasy

Paperback
Published : Friday 12 June 2015
ISBN : 9781138019799
Price : €43.28


Description

In this provocative book, originally published in 1975, the author debates the nature and function of daydreaming in the light of his own experiments. As well as investigating what is a normal `fantasy-life and outlining patterns and types of daydreaming, he describes the role of daydreaming in schizophrenia and paranoia, examines the fantasies and hallucinations induced by drugs and also the nature of altered states of consciousness in Zen and Transcendental Meditation. Among the many topics covered, he explains how it is possible to help children enlarge their capacity for fantasy, how adults can make positive use of daydreaming and how people on the verge of disturbed behaviour are often unconscious of their own fantasies.

Advances in scientific methods and new experimental techniques had made it possible at this time to monitor both conscious daydreaming and sub-conscious fantasies in a way not possible before.



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