Understanding the dream world: moving beyond Freud
A century after the debut of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the neurobiological approach to understanding the subconscious is yielding to an integrated psycho-bio-sociological model. Following a concise overview of Freudian theory, NewsHour c...
Why Do We Dream?
With cutting-edge experiments and intriguing case studies, this program explores the science of dreams—revealing their impact on our memories, learning processes, and mental health. Contrasting REM-sleep dreams with those occurring in non-REM slee...
The interpretation of dreams
Few figures have had so decisive an influence on modern cultural history as Sigmund Freud, psychology's grand theorist - yet few figures have also inspired such sustained controversy and intense debate. In this program, Freud historian Peter Swales;...
Dreams: theater of the night
Why do dreams occur? What is their function? What do they mean? This provocative program looks at the facts and examines the theories, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to today's neuroscience laboratory findings. The program visits a sleep ...