Dreams are highly valued in both Freudian psychoanalysis and less conservative clinical traditions. Text mining enables the extraction of meaning from writings in powerful and unexpected ways. In this work, we report methods, uses and results obtained by mining descriptions of dreams. The texts were collected as part of a course in Schizoanalysis (Clinical Psychology) from dozens of participant...

In this article, I briefly survey the ethnographic research literature on childhood in the 20th century, beginning with the social and intellectual contexts for discussions of childhood at the turn of the 20th century. The observations of Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead in the 1920s were followed by later ethnographers, also describing childhood, some of whom criticized developmental the...

neuropsychological age. IN 1953 a physiological state known as ‘REM sleep’ was discovered by Aserinsky and Kleitman (1953). This is a paradoxical state in which one is simultaneously highly aroused and yet fast asleep. It occurs approximately every 90 minutes throughout the sleep cycle, with monotonous regularity. In 1957 Dement and Kleitman announced that dream reports were obtained from appro...

In The End of Science, I argued that particle physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and other fields of pure science have entered an era of diminishing returns (Horgan, 1997). Although scientists will continue refining and extending current theories and applying their knowledge in the realms of technology and medicine, they may never again achieve insights into nature as profound as quantum...

In The End of Science, I argued that particle physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and other fields of pure science have entered an era of diminishing returns (Horgan, 1997). Although scientists will continue refining and extending current theories and applying their knowledge in the realms of technology and medicine, they may never again achieve insights into nature as profound as quantum...

This chapter reports on a long-term research program intended to apply the new techniques of slip induction to the classical problem of Freudian slips. We will discuss the program's rationale, early encouraging evidence, and two flawed attempts at systematic replication. These difficulties do not directly contradict the earlier positive results, so far; they do raise important unanswered questi...