Finding Meaning in Dreams A Quantitative Approach
Distinguished psychologist G. William Domhoff brings together-for the first time-all the necessary tools needed to perform quantitative studies of dream content using the rigorous system developed by Calvin S. Hall and Robert van de Castle. The book conta
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EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
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and Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Recent volumes in the series THE COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler FINDING MEANING IN DREAMS: A Quantitative Approach G. William Domhoff IMAGERY AND VISUAL EXPRESSION IN THERAPY Vija Bergs Lusebrink THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Jack George Thompson THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Carroll E. Izard QUANTIFYING CONSCIOUSNESS: An Empirical Approach Ronald J. Pekala THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: History, Theory, and Research Carol Magai and Susan H. McFadden SAMPLING INNER EXPERIENCE IN DISTURBED AFFECT Russell T. Hurlburt SAMPLING NORMAL AND SCHIZOPHRENIC INNER EXPERIENCE Russell T. Hurlburt THE TRANSFORMED SELF: The Psychology of Religious Conversion Chana Ullman A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher.
Finding Meaning in Dreams A Quantitative Approach G. William Domhoff
University of California Santa Cruz, California
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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ISBN 978-1-4899-0300-6 ISBN 978-1-4899-0298-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0298-6 © Springer Science+Business Media N e w York 1996 Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1996 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1996
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To the memory of Calvin S. Hall (1909-1985), the first American psychologist to study dream content systematically, whose ideas and research are the basis for this book
Preface
This book brings together, in one place for the first time, the excellent quantitative studies of dream content based on the detailed empirical coding system developed by Calvin S. Hall and Robert Van de Castle (1966). This volume includes many previously unpublished studies by Hall that contain major new findings, especially on cross-cultural comparisons and consistency in what people dream about over many years. The result is a comprehensive picture of dream content that is far more worldwide and impressive than I realized it would be when I set out to assess the literature. These findings show that the Hall/Van de Castle system has stood the test of time and is poised to take advantage of new developments in computer software for data storage and analysis. The book contains every method and finding needed by anyone who wishes to carry out quantitative studies of dream content us
