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The Mindbrain and Dreams

An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation
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The Mindbrain and Dreams by Mark J. Blechner presents the concept of the "mindbrain" as a unified system that processes our perceptions and reshapes reality through dreams, thought, and creativity. The book explores how dreams are central to mental functioning and psychoanalytic transformation, integrating neuroscience with psychoanalytic theory. Key themes include knowledge, emotion, metaphor, and memory, offering a new framework for understanding how dreams influence human thought and clinical practice.
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This book is ideal for psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cognitive neuroscientists interested in innovative approaches to understanding dreaming, thought processes, and reality construction within both clinical and theoretical contexts.

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In The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit–the ‘mindbrain’–which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts, and artistic creation.

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In The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit – the "mindbrain" – which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts, and artistic creation.

This book explores how dreams are key to understanding mental processes, and how working with dreams clinically with individuals and groups provides an essential route towards achieving transformation within the psychoanalytic process. Covering such key topics as knowledge, emotion, metaphor, and memory, this book sets out a radical new agenda for understanding the importance of dreams in human thought and their clinical importance in psychoanalysis. Blechner builds on his previous work and takes it much further, drawing on the latest neuroscientific findings to set out a new way of how the mindbrain constructs reality, while providing guidance on how best to help people understand their dreams.

The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation will appeal to psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cognitive neuroscientists who want new ways to explore how people think and understand the world.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815394563

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 March 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 346

About the Author

Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at William Alanson White Institute. He has taught at Columbia University, Yale University, and New York University.

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