{"product_id":"private-myths-dreams-and-dreaming-9780674216396","title":"Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery night we enter a mythic realm  a dark  primordial world of fear and desire. What this world offers  Anthony Stevens suggests  may well be the key to understanding our waking mysteries--ourselves  our society  and our history. A prominent psychiatrist and practicing Jungian analyst  Stevens views dreaming from both psychological and neurological perspectives to show how dreams owe their origins as much to our evolutionary history as a species as to our personal history as individuals.  A work rich in symbolic and scientific insight  Private Myths traverses the course of dream interpretation from distant hunter-gatherer times to the present. This analysis is as authoritative as it is wide-ranging  including discussions of the biology of dreaming and the discovery of REM sleep  elaboration of the latest neuroscientific techniques in sleep research  and an assessment of the century-long legacy of analytic practice to dream interpretation. In a close look at the actual processes of dream formation  Stevens relates \"dream work\" to other creative capacities such as language  poetry  storytelling  memory  play  symptom-formation  magic  and ritual. He draws on his many years of experience to analyze key historical dreams  such as Freuds dream of Irmas injection and Hitlers dream of being buried alive  and enriches this discussion with analyses of his own and his patients dreams.  Remarkable in its breadth  Private Myths makes the principles of dream interpretation accessible to scientists  the findings of dream science accessible to analysts  and the discoveries of both available to anyone intrigued by the mysteries of dreams and dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646708637749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674216393","price":26.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674216396.jpg?v=1781677499","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/private-myths-dreams-and-dreaming-9780674216396","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}