Dream Reader is a uniquely comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding and working with dreams. The general reader interested in exploring the world of dreams could not obtain a better introduction and grounding than from this book. Academic psychologists, therapists, and professional dreamworkers alike will find it to be an incomparable survey and sampling of the growing literature on dreaming.

In Part I, Shafton summarizes sleep laboratory discoveries, then considers theories about dream generation and meaning that have arisen from these discoveries. Part II...

Advance Praise for Dream-Singers ""You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it.""-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton ""A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it.""-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus...

Advance Praise for Dream-Singers ""You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it.""-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton ""A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it.""-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus...