Abrahamson, I.—Mental disturbances in lethargic encephalitis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. September 1920.

A study of the sleeping sickness based mainly upon cases observed at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Abraham, K.—Dreams and Myths. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series. No. 28.

A monograph proving that legends and myths are in reality the day dreams of the human race.

Adler, A.—Traum and Traumdeutung. Zentralblatt f. Ps. A. III, p. 574.

A short essay on dream interpretation from the point of view of the ego urge.

Aschaffenburg, G.—Der Schlaf in Kindesalter und seine StÖrungen. Bergmann, Wiesbaden.

Observations on the disturbances of the sleep of children.

Bruce, H. A.—Sleep and Sleeplessness. Little Brown.

A popular exposÉ of the problem of sleeplessness from a modern point of view.

Coriat, I.—The Meaning of Dreams. Little Brown.

A small book containing the analyses of many dreams according to the Freudian technique.

Coriat, I.—The Nature of Sleep. Journal of Abnormal Psycho. VI. No. 5.

Coriat, I.—The Evolution of Sleep and Hypnosis.

Ibidem, VII. No. 2.

Delage, Y.—La nature des images hypnagogiques. Bulletin de l’ Inst. Gen. Psycho. 1903, p. 235.

Du Prel, Carl.—KÜnstliche TrÄume. Sphinx, July 1889.

A study of artificial dreams.

Freud, S.—The Interpretation of Dreams. Macmillan.

Freud, S.—Dream Psychology, with an introduction by AndrÉ Tridon. McCann.

The most important books on Dream Interpretation.

FrÖmner, E.—Das Problem des Schlafs.

Bergmann, Wiesbaden.

Henning, H.—Der Traum ein assoziativer Kurzschluss.

Bergmann, Wiesbaden.

Maury, A.—Le Sommeil et les RÊves. Paris 1878.

The first attempt at a methodical study of dreams and at correlating them to physical stimuli.

Maeder, A. E.—The Dream Problem. Nervous and Mental Disease monograph series. No. 22.

A presentation of the subject from the point of view of the Swiss School.

Hall, B.—The Psychology of sleep. Moffat Yard.

A review of the various sleep theories from the academic point of view.

Kaplan, L.—Ueber wiederkehrende Traumsymbole. Zentrablatt f. Ps. A. IV, p. 284.

An essay on dream symbolism.

ManacÉine, M. de.—Sleep, its physiology, pathology, hygiene and psychology. Scribner.

The most complete study of sleep from every possible point of view, placing the emphasis, however, on the physical aspects of sleep.

Sachs, H.—Traumdeutung und Menschenkenntniss. Jahrb. d. Ps. A. III, p. 121.

Schrotter, K.—Experimentelle TrÄume. Zentralblatt f. Psy. A. II, p. 638.

A record of very interesting experiments in the production of artificial dreams through hypnotism.

Silberer, H.—Der Traum Enke. Stuttgart.

A very clear primer in dream study, epitomizing the latest hypotheses in interpretation.

Silberer, H.—Ueber die Symbolbildung. Jahrbuch d. Psy-A. III, p. 661.

Silberer, H.—Zur Symbolbildung. Jahrbuch d. Psy-A. IV, p. 607.

Silberer, H.—Bericht Über eine methode Hallucinationserscheinungen herbeizurefen. Jahrbuch d. Psy.-A. I, p. 513.

Stekel, W.—Die Sprache des Traumes. Wiesbaden, 1911.

Stekel, W.—Die TraÜme der Dichter. Wiesbaden, 1912.

Stekel, W.—Fortschritte in der Traumdeutung. Zentralblatt f. Psy-A. III, pp. 154, 426.

Stekel, W.—Individuelle Traumsymbole. Zentralblatt f. Psy-A. IV, p. 289.

Stekel is essentially a Freudian but his books contain hundreds of illustrations and case histories, making his books more understandable to laymen than Freud’s writings.

“Die Sprache des Traumes” is the most useful text book of Symbol Study.

Tridon, A.—Psychoanalysis, Its History, Theory and Practice. Huebsch.

See Chapter V: Symbols, the language of the dreams, and Chapter VI: The dreams of the human race.

Tridon, A.—Psychoanalysis and Behaviour. Knopf.

See part IV, chapter II: Self-knowledge through dream study.

Tridon, A.—Introduction to Freud’s “Dream Psychology.” McCann.

Vold, J. M.—Ueber den Traum. Leipzig 1910-1912.

Void holds that every dream is caused by a physical stimulus.

Vaschide, N.—Le Sommeil et les RÊves. Paris, 1911.

A physical explanation of sleep and dreams.

Footnotes:

[1] Readers unfamiliar with my previous works might accuse me of placing undue emphasis upon “mental” causes and ignoring the influence of bacilli, toxins, etc., in disease. I refer them to the chapter: Mind and Body, an indivisible unit, in my book, “Psychoanalysis and Behaviour.” It is a truism that in tuberculosis for instance the prognosis depends greatly from the “mental” condition of the patient and on his will to live. We are protected against disease germs by the various secretions of the mouth, stomach, intestine, etc. Whenever a “mental” cause, such as fear, intense sorrow, etc., translates itself into an action of the sympathetic system which stops the flow of saliva and gastric juice and the intestinal peristalsis, we can see how the organism is then predisposed to an invasion of pathogenic bacteria. The depressed, the stupid and the ignorant are the first victims in any epidemic, the depressed because their protective vagotonism is too low, the stupid and the ignorant because they are more frequently than the intelligent and well informed a prey to fear.

[2] The orthodox Freudian would of course interpret such a vision as a symbol of an attempted regression to the fetal condition, return to the mother’s womb, etc. As a matter of fact, sleep is to a certain extent a return to the period of the fetus’ almost complete omnipotence of thought. I have noticed, however, that I never dream of swimming except on days when I have been prevented from indulging in my favourite sport at the shore or in the swimming pool.

This is to my mind a perfectly obvious dream needing no far fetched interpretation, symbolical only in so far as it expresses my attitude to sleep (See chapter on Attitudes reflected in dreams).

[3] Dr. Percy Fridenberg has shown the exaggerated shock reactions felt by the organism after the eye suffers an injury or is operated on, and recalls Crile’s saying that our activation patterns come from sight.

[4] The duration of a dream is not as short as some of Maury’s experiments would lead us to believe. Some of the experimental dreams timed by Schroetter lasted almost as long as it takes to relate them.

[5] Insanity is simply a day dream from which we cannot awake at will.

[6] All the dreams cited in this book are reported in the patient’s own words.