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With this book, Richard Gardner has added a new dimension to his already massive output of writing in psychiatry, psychotherapeutic treatment, and related topics. Heretofore Dr. Gardner has focused heavily on such diverse topics as the fantasy life of children, child therapeutic techniques, children's psychological issues, minimal brain dysfunction syndromes, psychological and psychodynamic issues in family life, sexual abuse, psychotherapeutic techniques and issues in general, and finally, issues in forensic psychiatry involving both children and adults. This prodigious output has included well over 30 books.
In the present book, Dr. Gardner has undertaken a task that differs in one respect somewhat markedly from the tasks involved in the previous writings. Whereas all of his writings (including the present book) involve extensive clinical information and elaboration, the additionally distinct task in the present book is to find a way to characterize those phenomena, dreams and dreaming, which at their inception are “truly” psychological.
By “truly psychological” I mean that dreams both emanate from and are