Daydreaming, our ability to give ‘to airy nothing a local habitation and a name’, remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour. As children we explore beyond the boundaries of our experience by projecting ourselves into the mysterious worlds outside our reach. As adolescents and adults we transcend frustration by dreams of achievement or escape, and use daydreaming as a way out of intolerable situations and to help survive boredom, drudgery or routine. In old age we turn back to happier memories as a relief from loneliness or frailty, or wistfully daydream about what we would do if we had our time over again.  Why is it that we have the ability to alternate between fantasy and reality? Is it possible to have ambition or the ability to experiment, create or invent without the catalyst of fantasy? Are sexual fantasies an inherent part of human behaviour? Are they universal, healthy, destructive? Is daydreaming itself destructive? Or is it a force which facilitates change and which can even be harnessed to positive advantage? In this provocative book, originally published in 1975, the product of the previous twenty-five years of research, the author debates the nature and function of daydreaming in the light of his own experiments. As well as investigating what is a normal ‘fantasy-life’ and outlining patterns and types of daydreaming, he describes the role of daydreaming in schizophrenia and paranoia, examines the fantasies and hallucinations induced by drugs and also the nature of altered states of consciousness in Zen and Transcendental Meditation. Among the many topics covered, he explains how it is possible to help children enlarge their capacity for fantasy, how adults can make positive use of daydreaming and how people on the verge of disturbed behaviour are often unconscious of their own fantasies. Advances in scientific methods and new experimental techniques had made it possible at this time to monitor both conscious daydreaming and sub-conscious fantasies in a way not possible before.  Professor Singer is one of the few scientists who have conducted substantial research in this area and it is his belief that the study of daydreaming and fantasy is of great importance if we are to understand the workings of the human mind.

Daydreaming and fantasy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

SINGER, JEROME L.

Psychology & Counseling

Allen And Unwin

Describes the activities that typify pre-adolescent play, noting their affect on the cognitive and emotional development of the child

The Child's World of Make Believe: Experimental Studies of Imaginative Play

Academic Pr

Imagery and Daydream Methods in Psychotherapy

Shows how to use the power of daydreams and fantasies to relax, overcome fears, improve sex life, increase creativity, cope with pain, increase assertiveness, and otherwise enhance one's life

Mind-Play: The Creative Uses of Fantasy

Prentice Hall Direct

Mind-play: The creative uses of fantasy (A Spectrum book)

PRENTICE/HALL

The Human Personality [Mar 01, 1984] Singer, Jerome L.

The Human Personality

Harcourt

Daydreaming and Fantasy (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford University Press

Based upon a conference held in May 1993, this book discusses the intersection of neurobiology, cognitive psychology and computational approaches to cognition.

The Mind, The Brain And Complex Adaptive Systems (Santa Fe Institute Series)

Computers & Technology

Morowitz, Harold J.

Computer Science

Routledge

This book features contributions from twenty six leading experts that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style, from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives. "Rarely does a volume present contributions on a controversial topic from such distinguished clinicians and experimentalists . . . . There is something of interest in this volume for almost anyone involved in experimental cognitive psychology and psychiatry."—Carroll E. Izard, Contemporary Psychology "The concept of repression is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. . . . This is a delightful book, unusually well-written. . . . Recommended."—Choice "Readable, thorough, wide ranging and consistently interesting. . . . A testament to the continuing power of psychodynamic ideas when faced with individual psychopathology."—Sue Llewelyn, Psychologist "Singer has brought together some of the best empirical research in the areas of unconscious mental activity and repression—that is at once interdisciplinary and scholarly."—Howard D. Lerner, International Review of Psycho-analysis "A rich reference, replete with summaries and citations, covering a variety of topics related to the psychology of repression and dissociation. . . . A thoughtful, detailed and eclectic discussion of the scientific and theoretical basis of repression and dissociation."—Steven Lazrove, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry

Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)

Mental Health

University of Chicago Press

This book features contributions from twenty six leading experts that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style, from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives. "Rarely does a volume present contributions on a controversial topic from such distinguished clinicians and experimentalists . . . . There is something of interest in this volume for almost anyone involved in experimental cognitive psychology and psychiatry."—Carroll E. Izard, Contemporary Psychology "The concept of repression is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. . . . This is a delightful book, unusually well-written. . . . Recommended."—Choice "Readable, thorough, wide ranging and consistently interesting. . . . A testament to the continuing power of psychodynamic ideas when faced with individual psychopathology."—Sue Llewelyn, Psychologist "Singer has brought together some of the best empirical research in the areas of unconscious mental activity and repression—that is at once interdisciplinary and scholarly."—Howard D. Lerner, International Review of Psycho-analysis "A rich reference, replete with summaries and citations, covering a variety of topics related to the psychology of repression and dissociation. . . . A thoughtful, detailed and eclectic discussion of the scientific and theoretical basis of repression and dissociation."—Steven Lazrove, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry

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Daydreaming and fantasy

The Child's World of Make Believe: Experimental Studies of Imaginative Play

Imagery and Daydream Methods in Psychotherapy

Mind-Play: The Creative Uses of Fantasy

Mind-play: The creative uses of fantasy (A Spectrum book)

The Human Personality

Daydreaming and Fantasy (Oxford Paperbacks)

The Mind, The Brain And Complex Adaptive Systems (Santa Fe Institute Series)

Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)

Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)