Psychodynamic Neurology: Dreams, Consciousness, and Virtual Realty presents a novel way of thinking about the value of dreaming, based in solid comprehension of scientific research on sleep and dreams, but with deep understanding of psychoanalytic and other interpretations of dreams. This book: • Surveys the remarkable history of sleep research over the past few decades • Examines the neurobiology of sleep and its implications for consciousness and well-being • Addresses the nature of waking and dreaming consciousness and how they are deeply related • Presents the neurogenesis, function, and clinical importance of a brain-based dream theory • Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual as well as remembered real experience. This book tells the story of how neuroscience has helped us reach this startling and exciting conclusion and how the new scientific model builds upon and departs from the dream theories of the past. Contents: Historical Background: The Mind-Brain Schism of 1900 Virtual Reality Dream—12/6/2011 Philosophical Issues The Freudian Split Modern Sleep Science Psychodynamics William James Helmholtz and the Pact Against Vitalism Wilhelm Wundt Neurological Development: Sleep and Dream Science Noreene Storrie and Potatoes—11/26/2012 Self and Agency Fetal Brain Activation Sleep Eye Movement I Move, Therefore I Am Separate Selves Vision in Waking and Dreaming A Virtual Space for Virtual Sensation and Virtual Movement Taking Virtual Reality Seriously Evolution Self-Organization Dreaming in Real-Time Time Sense in Dreams Lucid Dreaming: Splitting Primary and Secondary Consciousness Waking Dream—1/12/13 Flip-Flop States Brain Dissociation Free Will? Brain Imaging and Lucid Dreaming Hypnosis: Entering The Brain-Mind Via The Brain Stem Cellar Associations Are Never Free Autosuggestion and Self-Hypnosis Let There Be Light: Information Creation and Management PGO Waves of REM Sleep PGO Wave Inhibition Turning on PGO Waves and REM Sleep A Startling Hypothesis Central Heating: Keeping Warm While Dreaming Circadian Rhythms Loss of Temperature Control Individuality and Sleep Alcoholism: An Experiment of Culture And Nature Psychodynamic Neurology? Quantification What Is Free Energy? Religion And Sexuality: A Civil War in the Brain-Mind Religion Dreaming as Religion My God Is Better than Yours Varieties of Religious Experience Denial of Comfort Sex Chinese Love Dream—1/12/2012 Sex Rules Brain Activation In Sleep Wet Dreams Sex and Religion Cross Wires The Psychodynamic Ego: An Epigenetic Self Freud as Inadvertent Cartesian A Conceptual Reversal Mental? Illness The Trauma Hunt Why Go to Medical School? Celebrate Skepticism A Shorthand of Defenses Psychological Camouflage Primary and Secondary Consciousness Free Will Dreaming as Primary Consciousness The Transcendental Ego: Art and Science of the Brain-Mind The Creative Ego Philosophical Background Biologizing Kant Transcendentalism A Model of the World Is Waking as Bizarre as Dreaming? Illogical Us Creativity and the Transcendent Ego Ski-Flying Dream—Sicily, 4/8/2011 Storytelling and the Transcendent Ego New Initiatives Linking Dream Science and Literature Toward a Science of Subjectivity Instincts And Emotions: Ethology of the Brain-Mind Emotion Is Inherently Cognitive Ethological Psychiatry The Reticular Activating System REM Sleep Without Atonia REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Threat Avoidance Attachment and Separation Psychopathology: Dysfunction of the Brain-Mind Dream Madness What Kind of Psychosis Is Dreaming? Sleep and Mood Regulation A Paradox Explained Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors Lessons from the Past Memory: Epigenetic and Experiential Aspects Contrasts with The Freudian Unconscious Genetic Memory Epigenetic Memory Epigenetic Instantiation of The NREM-REM Sleep Cycle Cats Beget Kittens REM Sleep and the Consolidation Of Memory Elaborative Encoding Post-Freudian Revisions: Further Attacks on Psychoanalysis and Alternative Models The Anti-Freud War Biological Psychiatry and Psychobiology Behavioral Neurology Sleep and Dream Science Altered States: Toward a Science of the Brain-Mind Transcendental Meditation Eye Movement Redirection Therapy Substance Abuse Alcohol Cocaine Amphetamine Prozac LSD Brain-Mind Dream Interpretation: A New Project for Scientific Psychology Laboratory Dream—1/2/2012 Commentary |