Dream Bizarreness and the Controversy between the Neurobiological Approach and the Disguise-Censorship Model: The Contribution of Children’s Dreams

References

• Antrobus, J. S. (1983). REM and NREM sleep reports: Comparison of word frequencies by cognitive classes. Psychophysiology, 20: 562–568.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blechner, M. J. (2006). Commentary on S. Boag, “Freudian Dream Theory, Dream Bizarreness, and the Disguise-Censor Controversy.” Neuropsychoanalysis, 8 (1): 17–20.
   Google Scholar
• Boag, S. (2006a). Freudian dream theory, dream bizarreness, and the disguise-censor controversy. Neuropsychoanalysis, 8 (1): 5–16.
   Google Scholar
• Boag, S. (2006b). Response to commentaries. Neuropsychoanalysis, 8 (1): 59–68.
   Google Scholar
• Braun, A. R. (1999). Commentary on J. A. Hobson, “The New Neuropsychology of Sleep: Implications for Psychoanalysis.” Neuropsychoanalysis, 1 (2): 196–201.
   Google Scholar
• Braun, A. R., Balkin, T. J., Wesenten, N. J., Carson, R. E., Varga, M., Baldwin, P., (1997). Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-wake cycle. Brain, 120, 1173–1197.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (1997). I sogni dei bambini nella teoria psicodinamica: un contributo teorico e sperimentale. PhD dissertation, Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Bologna.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2003). Dream bizarreness reconsidered. Sleep and Hypnosis, 5 (3): 105–128.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2004). Dreaming in addiction. A study on the motivational bases of dreaming processes. Neuropsychoanalysis, 6 (2): 167–181.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2006a). Nota sulle idee prescientifiche sul tema della bizzarria onirica [Note on pre-scientific theories about dream bizarreness]. Psychofenia, 9 (15): 15–36.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2006b). Commentary on S. Boag, “Freudian Dream Theory, Dream Bizarreness, and the Disguise-Censor Controversy. Neuropsychoanalysis, 8 (1): 24–27.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2006c). Children’s dreaming: A study based on questionnaires completed by parents. Sleep and Hypnosis, 8 (1): 19–32.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2009a). The Study of Bizarreness in Young Children’s Dreams: A Way to Test the Disguise-Censorship Model. Poster presentation at the 2009 International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress (Paris).
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2009b). Gli studi sull’effetto della frustrazione dei bisogni primari sul sognare e la recente ricerca e teoria sui processi onirici [The studies on effects of vital needs frustration on dreaming and the modern dream research and theory]. Psycofenia, 12 (20): 49–72.
   Google Scholar
• Colace C. (2010). Children’s Dreams: From Freud’s Observations to Modern Dream Research. London: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2011). The Nature of Wish-Fulfillment in Young Children’s Dreams: Further Observations. Poster presentation at the 2011 International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress (Berlin).
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C. (2012a). Children’s Dreams. Manuscript in preparation.
   Google Scholar
• Colace C. (2012b). I sogni di appagamento di desiderio dei bambini: Una via maestra per l’indagine sulle funzioni del sogno? [The wish-fulfillment dreams of children: A royal road for the investigation of the functions of the dream?]. Poster presentation at the Congress on Neuropsychoanalysis, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, 8–10 June.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., Doricchi, F., Di Loreto, E., & Violani, C. (1993). Developmental qualitative and quantitative aspects of bizarreness in dream reports of children. Sleep Research, 22: 57.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., & Tuci, B. (1996a). Caratteristiche di semplicità dei primi sogni di bambini e implicazioni per la teoria neurobiological della bizzarria onirica [The simplicity of children’s dreams: Implications for the neurobiological theory of dream bizarreness]. Paper presented at the National Congress of the Division of Experimental Psychology of the A.I.P, Capri [abstracts, pp. 248–250].
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., & Tuci, B. (1996b). Early children’s dreams are not bizarre. Sleep Research, 25: 147.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., Tuci, B., & Ferendeles, R. (1997). Bizarreness in early children’s dreams collected in the home setting: Preliminary data. Sleep Research, 26: 241.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., & Violani, C. (1993). La bizzarria del sogno infantile come correlato della capacità di provare sensi di colpa [Bizarreness in children’s dreams as a correlate of the capacity to experience guilt]. Psichiatria dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza, 60 (4–5): 367–376.
   Google Scholar
• Colace, C., Violani, C., & Solano, L. (1993). La deformazionebizzarria onirica nella teoria freudiana del sogno. Indicazioni teoriche e verifica di due ipotesi di ricerca in un campione di 50 sogni di bambini. [Oneiric distortion/bizarreness in Freud’s dream theory: Theoretical propositions and empirical validation of two research hypotheses on 50 children’s dreams]. Archivio di Psicologia, Neurologia e Psichiatria, 54 (3): 380–401.
   Google Scholar
• Coriat, I. H. (1920). The Meaning of Dreams. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
   Google Scholar
• Crick, F., & Mitchison, G. (1983). The function of REM sleep. Nature, 304: 111–114.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crick, F., & Mitchison, G. (1986). REM sleep and neural nets. Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 7: 229–249.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Despert, J. L. (1949). Dreams in children of preschool age. Psychoanalytic Study of Child, 3–4: 141–180.
   Google Scholar
• Domhoff, B., & Kamiya, J. (1964). Problem in dream content study with objective indicators. Archives of General Psychiatry, 11: 519–532.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fosshage, J. L. (1997). The organizing functions of dream mentation. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 33 (3): 429–458.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foulkes, D. (1982). Children’s Dreams: Longitudinal Studies. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
   Google Scholar
• Foulkes, D. (1999). Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Foulkes, D., Larson, J., Swanson, E., & Rardin, M. (1969). Two studies of childhood dreaming. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 39: 627–643.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frank, J. (1950). Some aspects of lobotomy (prefrontal leucotomy) under psychoanalytic scrutiny. Psychiatry, 13: 35–42.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams. Standard Edition, 4–5.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1901). On Dreams. Standard Edition, 5.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1910). Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Standard Edition, 11: 3–55.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1916–17). Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Standard Edition, 15/16.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1925). An Autobiographical Study. Standard Edition, 20.
   Google Scholar
• Gottesmann, C. (1999). Neurophysiological support of consciousness during waking sleep. Progress in Neurobiology, 59: 469–508.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gottesmann, C. (2000). Hypothesis for the neurophysiology of dreaming. Sleep Research Online, 3 (1): 1–4.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Gottesmann, C. (2006). Commentary on S. Boag, “Freudian Dream Theory, Dream Bizarreness, and the Disguise-Censor Controversy”: Neurobiological disturbances during the dreaming-sleep stage can explain dream bizarreness without recourse to censorship. Neuropsychoanalysis, 8 (1): 27–32.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (1988). The Dreaming Brain. New York: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (1990). Activation, input source, and modulation: Neurocognitive model of the state of the brain–mind. In: Sleep and Cognition, ed. R. R. Bootzin, J. F. Kihlstrom, & D. L. Schacter. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 25–40.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (1992). A new model of brain–mind state: Activation level, Input source, and Mode of processing (AIM). In: The Neuropsychology of Sleep and Dreaming, ed. J. S. Antrobus & M. Bertini. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 227–245.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (1999). The new neuropsychology of sleep: Implications for psychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis, 1: 157–183.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2000). The ghost of Sigmund Freud haunts Mark Solms’s dream theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (6): 951–952.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2002). Dreaming: An Introduction to Science of Sleep. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2004). Freud returns? Like a bad dream. Scientific American, 290: 89.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2005). In bed with Mark Solms? What a nightmare! A reply to Domhoff (2005). Dreaming, 15: 21–29.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2006). Debate with Mark Solms. In: J. A. Hobson & Mark Solms, Dream Debate: Should Freud’s Dream Theory Be Abandoned? Hobson (Yes) vs Solms (No) [DVD]. Debate at Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, at the Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, AZ. Available at: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Product.asp?PID=25805
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A. (2007). Wake up or dream on? Six questions for Turnbull and Solms. Cortex, 43: 1113–1115.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., Hoffman, S. A., Helfand, R., & Kostner, D. (1987). Dream bizarreness and the activation-synthesis hypothesis. Human Neurobiology, 6: 157–164.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., & McCarley, R. W. (1977). The brain as a dream-state generator: Activation-synthesis hypothesis of dream process. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134: 1335–1368.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., & Pace-Schott, E. F. (1999). Response to commentaries by J. Allan Hobson and Edward F. Pace-Schott. Neuropsychoanalysis, 1: 206–224.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., Pace-Schott, E. F., & Stickgold, R. (2000a). Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (6): 793–842.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., Pace-Schott, E. F., & Stickgold, R. (2000b). Dream science 2000: A response to commentaries on “Dreaming and the Brain.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (6): 1019–1035.
   Google Scholar
• Hobson, J. A., Stickgold, R., & Pace-Schott, E. F. (1998). The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming. Neuroreport, 9: 1–14.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hughes, D. J. (2000). Dream interpretation in ancient civilizations. Dreaming, 10 (1): 7–18.
   Google Scholar
• Hunt, H. T., Ruzycki-Hunt, K., Pariak D., & Belicki, K. (1993). The relationship between dream bizarreness and imagination: Artifact or essence? Dreaming, 3 (3): 179–199.
   Google Scholar
• Kahn, D., Pace-Schott, E. F., & Hobson, J. A. (1997). Consciousness in waking and dreaming: The roles of neuronal oscillation and neuromodulation in determining similarities and differences. Neuroscience, 78: 13–38.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kaplan-Solms, K., & Solms, M. (1996). Psychoanalytic observations on a case of frontal-limbic disease. Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 3: 405–438.
   Google Scholar
• Kaplan-Solms, K., & Solms, M (2000). Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology. London: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Kimmins, C. W. (1937). Children’s Dreams: An Unexplored Land. London: Allen & Unwin.
   Google Scholar
• MacKenzie, N. (1965). Dreams and Dreaming. London: Aldus.
   Google Scholar
• Mamelak, A., & Hobson, J. A. (1989). Dream bizarreness as the cognitive correlate of altered neuronal behavior in REM sleep. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1: 201–222.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Maquet, P., Peters, J., Aerts, J., Delfiore, G., Degueldre, C., Luxen, A., (1996). Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming. Nature, 12 (383): 163–166.
   Google Scholar
• McCarley, R. W., & Hoffman, E. (1981). REM sleep dreams and the Activation-Synthesis hypothesis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 138 (7): 904–912.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Muzur, A., Pace-Schott, E. F., & Hobson, J. A. (2002). The prefrontal cortex in sleep. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6 (11): 475–481.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Popper, K. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London: Hutchinson.
   Google Scholar
• Popper, K. (1963). Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Resnick, J., Stickgold, R., Rittenhouse, C., & Hobson, J. A. (1994). Self-representation and bizarreness in children’s dream reports collected in the home setting. Consciousness and Cognition, 3: 30–45.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seligman, M., & Yellen, A. (1987). What is a dreaming? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 25 (1): 1–24.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Solms, M. (1997). The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical Study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
   Google Scholar
• Solms, M. (1999). Commentary on J. A. Hobson, “The New Neuropsychology of Sleep: Implications for Psychoanalysis.” Neuropsychoanalysis, 1: 183–195.
   Google Scholar
• Solms, M. (2000). Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (6): 843–850.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Solms, M. (2006). Debate with Allan Hobson. In: A. J. Hobson & Mark Solms, Dream Debate: Should Freud’s Dream Theory Be Abandoned? Hobson (Yes) vs Solms (No) [DVD]. Debate at Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, at the Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, AZ. Available at: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Product.asp?PID=25805
   Google Scholar
• Solms, M., & Turnbull, O. (2002). The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. New York: Other Press.
   Google Scholar
• Turnbull, O. H., & Solms, M. (2007a). Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology, Cortex, 43: 1083–1090.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turnbull, O. H., & Solms, M. (2007b). Reply to commentaries. Big issues, little issues … and non-issues. Cortex, 43: 1116–1121.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wood, J. M., Sebba, D., & Domino, G. (1989). Do creative people have more bizarre dreams? A reconsideration. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9: 3–16.
   Google Scholar
• Yu, C. K.-C. (2003). Neuroanatomical correlates of dreaming, III: The frontal lobe controversy (dream censorship). Neuropsychoanalysis, 5 (2): 159–169.
   Google Scholar
• Yu, C. K.-C. (2006). Commentary on S. Boag, “Freudian Dream Theory, Dream Bizarreness, and the Disguise-Censor Controversy.” Neuropsychoanalysis, 8: 53–59.
   Google Scholar
• Zepelin, H. (1979). Dream distortion scale. In: C. Winget & M. Kramer (Eds.), Dimension of Dreams (pp. 140–143). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
   Google Scholar