Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies

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Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies is written by Sharon Packer MD and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313012105 (ISBN 10) and 9780313012105 (ISBN 13).

Cinema—invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed—primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian dream theories to their art to make the public aware of modern ideas about dreams. Most of our current cultural consciousness about the psychological value of dreams is traced to classical and contemporary cinema. This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today. Scholars and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cinema, medicine, and religion may find this volume useful. The book also examines academic psychiatry's increased emphasis in dream study on neuropsychiatry and psychopharmocology, as well as managed care's decreased compensation for dream therapy.