The Democracy of the Dream

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The Mystique of Dreams: A Search for Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory (University of California Press, Berkeley, $9.95 (pb), 146 pp., 1990) is by G. William Domhoff, Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Dreaming Brain (Penguin, London, £6.99, 319 pp., 1990) is by J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard and an internationally recognised dream researcher. Dreamwork in Psychotherapy and Self Change (Norton, New York, £25, 372 pp., 1990) is by Alvin R. Mahrer who is Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and author of numerous books on psychotherapy and dreams. Dream, Phantasy and Art (Routledge, London, £30 (hb), £10.99 (pb), 120 pp., 1991) is by Hanna Segal, former Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College, London, and a leading Kleinian psychoanalyst and writer. The Rhetoric of Dreams (Cornell University Press, Cornell, $22.50, 217 pp., 1988) is by Bert. O. States, Professor of Drama at the University of California, Santa Barbara.