Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674009714)

David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it--active stories in which the dreamer is an actor--appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.

Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.

Author: David Foulkes
ISBN-10: 0674009711
ISBN-13: 9780674009714
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2002
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.04h x 4.98w x 0.56d