Finding Meaning in Dreams: A Quantitative ApproachDistinguished psychologist G. William Domhoff brings together-for the first time-all the necessary tools needed to perform quantitative studies of dream content using the rigorous system developed by Calvin S. Hall and Robert van de Castle. The book contains a comprehensive review of the literature, detailed coding rules, normative findings, and statistical tables. |
Contents
The Classification and Scoring of Social Interactions | 15 |
The Classification and Scoring of Descriptive Elements | 21 |
The Issue of Intercoder Reliability | 28 |
4 | 38 |
Normative Findings on American College Students | 51 |
5 | 80 |
CrossCultural Studies of Dream Content | 99 |
Consistency and Change in Long Dream Series | 131 |
Appendix B The Coding of a Sample Dream Series | 279 |
Dream 1 | 280 |
Dream 2 | 282 |
Dream 3 | 285 |
Dream 4 | 288 |
Dream 5 | 291 |
Dream 6 | 293 |
Dream 7 | 296 |
47 | 150 |
The Continuity between Dreams and Waking Life | 153 |
The Dream Life and Literature of Franz Kafka | 163 |
54 | 168 |
The Dreams of a Neurotic Patient | 171 |
A Difficult Case | 178 |
Dream Content in Patient Populations | 184 |
63 | 186 |
The Repetition Dimension in Dreams and Waking Cognition | 191 |
64 | 207 |
Appendix A Coding Rules for the HallVan de Castle System | 213 |
The Classification and Scoring of Social Interactions | 224 |
The Classification and Coding of Activities | 236 |
Success | 243 |
The Classification and Coding of Emotions | 252 |
The Classification and Coding of Descriptive Elements | 266 |
Food and Eating and Elements from the Past | 273 |
Dream 8 | 298 |
Dream 9 | 301 |
Dream 10 | 304 |
Instructions for Reporting Dreams in Written Form | 309 |
Statistical Appendix | 311 |
h | 314 |
67 | 315 |
Determining Significance Levels | 317 |
Determining Confidence Intervals | 318 |
Conclusion | 320 |
Appendix E Normative Tables | 321 |
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115 | 339 |
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