In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged them ...

The word “dream” is often used to convey longing or aspiration in a metaphorical sense: In your dreams. Dream on. A dream come true. But a dream can also serve as an avenue that enables us to achieve ...

In an autobiographical tour de force that melds memoir with sophisticated science writing, eminent Harvard psychiatrist and neuroscientist Hobson (The Dreaming Brain, etc.) analyzes 13 of his own ...

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In taking a scientist’s approach to studying what happens to minds during dreaming, Dr. J. Allan Hobson saw something far different than the often repressed desires that Sigmund Freud interpreted more ...

In these strange times, many are reporting experiencing more vivid dreams than usual. Cath Pound asks psychotherapist Philippa Perry how art can help us understand them – and ourselves. Dreams have ...