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Publish Date: 1953/11/14
Volume: 153, Issue: 11, Pages: 1063-1063
Abstract
Extremely well written and fortified with 1309 references to previous publications this book summarizes almost everything of interest that has been written about dreams from the time of Joseph and the Pharaohs to Freud and Jung Concerned with dreams as manifesting the experiences and aspirations of the dreamer it should be useful in libraries devoted to psychoanalysis The word Wissenschaft in the title however invites evaluation of the book as a work of science In 10 lines on page 151 the author dismisses statistical methods as having limited value Kinsey and others who have contributed substantially to the important literature on nocturnal emissions are not mentioned and in general the space given to the data of experimental and physiological psychology is scanty This book exemplifies the preoccupation with superficially acceptable conclusions pointed out recently by Altschule as the bane of psychiatry and it places the present work low on the
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