Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

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Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness is written by David Foulkes and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674037162 (ISBN 10) and 9780674037168 (ISBN 13).

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.