States of Consciousness

Brenda Mallon's latest book on dreams and dreaming provides a valuable and positive insight into the dreams of children. She has - through sensitiv...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!In Dreams That Turn Over a Page, the author discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in ana...

In what has been called `the best general introduction to this subject' (Die Welt, Hamburg), The Dimensions of Dreams summarises in one encyclopedi...

This important volume applies hypnotic principles to the specific challenges of behavioral medicine. Drawing from extensive clinical evidence and e...

"A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis. . . . Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of s...

Nocturnes, literally music for the night, is a delightfully impressionistic investigation into everything that is not known, and perhaps can never ...

First published in 1986. Scientific hypnosis has made great advances particularly since World War II, both as part of basic psychological science c...

This collection traces the history of psycho-analytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to...

First published in 1985. This book summarizes the findings of empirical dream psychology and interprets them from a cognitive-psychological perspec...

This volume describes how the conceptual and technical sophistication of contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific fields has enhanced the neuroco...

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

The ultimate guide to understanding your dreams. This accessible and comprehensive guide has been a bestseller for almost twenty years. D...

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

In Hidden Depths, Robin Waterfield explores the fascinating world of hypnosis, tracing the history of this often misunderstood craft beginning with...

First published in 1991. An introductory guidebook to dream interpretation which will be of interest to analysts and therapists both in practice an...

The book's first three chapters-by Sheehan and Robertson; Wagstaff; Council, Kirsch, and Grant - conclude that three different factors turn imagina...

Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is bet...

First Published in 1998. This is Volume I in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This work was first written as a Ph..D. thesis and s...

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. P...

Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is bet...

Introducing a unique 9-step approach to understanding dreams, Robert Moss shows how to use your dreams to understand your past, shape your future, ...

The venom from Bufo alvarius, an unusual toad found in the Sonoran desert, contains 5-MeO-DMT, a potent natural chemical similar in effect to the m...

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It re...

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a tru...

Hypnosis: A Brief History crosses disciplinary boundaries to explain current advances and controversies surrounding the use of hypnosis through an ...

Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings t...

'[An] intelligent and well-researched book, which is full of surprises.' Guardian'Extraordinary . . . a fascinating and satisfying read.' Observer'...

Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other ...

Near death experiences fascinate everyone, from theologians to sociologists and neuroscientists. This groundbreaking book introduces the phenomenon...

Can problems be solved by setting them aside or by sleeping on them? Incubation, the process of stopping conscious work on problems for a set perio...

Offers guidance on using hypnosis with children to address physical and mental challenges. Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis is a timely coll...

Originally published in Great Britain in 1972 and distilled from the collective wisdom of the great interpreters of dreams – Freud, Jung, Adler, St...

The Dreaming Mind provides an insightful, interdisciplinary approach to the study of dreaming, exploring its nature and examining some of the impli...

Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of African...