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By Bert O. States. 265 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1997. $32.50. ISBN 0-300-06910-3.

There are a lot of books about dreams and dreaming. These usually fall into two categories: those written by therapists, who use dreams to aid their understanding of their individual patients, and those written by researchers, who investigate dreams as a normal activity of the sleeping brain. These two types of books come out of different traditions of method. The first uses the extensive pursuit of the dreamer's waking associations to help make sense of the dream for the purpose of bringing more control to a disordered life, while the second uses the sleep laboratory and the controls of science . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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