Envisioning the Dream Through Art and Science
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art-based psychological research
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Author_Robert Kuzendorf
boundary questionnaire scoring
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dream visual symbolism
emotional expression in imagery
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personality traits in dream interpretation
psychopathology assessment tools
surrealist collage analysis
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- ISBN 9780895038586
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This monograph is the product of an interdisciplinary experiment--an artistic experiment and a psychological experiment--focused on dreams. Inspired by the prevalence of dream imagery and "dream logic" in surrealist art, the authors asked 100 art students to create digital images representing critical scenes from one of their dreams, then to create a surrealist collage from the digital images. The resulting collages tend to capture the surreality envisioned in actual works of surrealist art, as two collages included in the book illustrate. Inspired also by the psychological problem of studying other minds, the authors asked the 100 art students to describe their dream in writing, to interpret their dream, and to complete two personality measures: the Short Form of the Boundary Questionnaire and the Brief Symptom Inventory. The art students' scores on particular personality scales were found to be statistically associated with particular dream aspects, many of which are visually observable in the digitized dream images created by art students with particular personalities but are not verbally discernible in the dream descriptions written by those same students. The appendix contains, for each art student, the digitally imaged dream, the written description and written interpretation of the dream, and scores on the Boundary Questionnaire and on the depression, anxiety, hostility, and somatization scales of the Brief Symptom Inventory. The book concludes with a bibliography and an index to some of the visual elements in the 100 digitized dream images.
Robert Kunzendorf is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA and coeditor of the academic journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, Clinical Practice. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and has coedited four books: Mental Imagery; The Psychophysiology of Mental Imagery; Hypnosis and Imagination; and Individual Differences in Conscious Experience.
James Veatch is department chair and an associate professor of art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. As a printmaker, photographer, and painter, he has utilized digital media as his art form for more than 30 years. His work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.
