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Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research

Author(s) : Claudio Colace

Reviews and Endorsements

'OK, psychoanalytic ideas are too complicated to test, right? Claudio Colace is a member of the vanguard of neuropsychoanalysts who are establishing metapsychology's scientific base. In a brilliantly conceived and executed series of studies Colace shows how superego development between ages three and eight changes the nature of dreams from clear wish fulfillment to bizarrely disguised expressions of motivation.'
- Brian Johnson, Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

'The study of dreams poses intriguing problems about relations between philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Claudio Colace's book is one of the most original and significant works in recent dream science. Colace has undertaken a sophisticated programme of research on young children's dreams over a period of ten years: he argues convincingly that central psychoanalytic hypotheses, on topics such as narrative complexity, bizarreness, and motivation in dreams, can thus be rigorously tested. This rich and provocative book will interest historians and philosophers of science, developmental psychologists, affect theorists, neuropsychoanalysts, and all students of dreaming.'
- John Sutton, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Contents
Part One: An Attempt of Systematic Description of Freud's Observations on Children's Dreams
1 An Overview of Freud's Writings on Children's Dreams
2 How Freud Studies Child Dreams: Methodology and Samples
3 The Characteristics of Children's Dreams Described by Freud
4 Are Freud's Hypotheses on Child Dreams Empirically Controllable?
Part Two: Actuality and Empirical Evaluation of Freud's Observations on Children's Dreams
5 Modern Dream Research in a Developmental Age: Methodological and General Aspects
6 Studies on Dreams in The Developmental Age: 1989-1999
7 Formal Characteristics of Children's Dreams
8 Bizarreness in Children's Dreams and the Development of Superego Functions
9 Wish Fulfilment in Children's Dreams
10 Child Dream Evolution: a Longtitudinal Observation
11 Conclusions
About the Author