Subliminal Explorations of Perceptions, Dreams and Fantasies : The Pioneering Contributions of Charles Fischer

by Shevrin, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780823662487
• ISBN10: 0823662489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc

Summary

Description of Content: Today, psychology is on the threshold of addressing the nature of unconscious processes, not simply their existence. Subliminal research has been a multidisciplinary area since the early 1960s: cognitive science, social psychology, personality, and neuroscience have contributed hundreds of studies over this period. This is far different from the early 1950s when mainly psychoanalytic investigators such as Charles Fisher, a pioneer in the field, produced a handful of studies. This volume brings together in one place the corpus of Charles Fisher's subliminal investigations. Table of Contents: 1) Dreams and Perception: The Role of Preconscious and Primary Modes of Perception in Dream Formation 2) Dreams, Images, and Perception: A Study of Unconscious-Preconscious Relationships 3) A Study of the Preliminary Stages of the Construction of Dreams and Images 4) Further Observations on the Potzl Phenomenon 5) The Effect of Subliminal Visual Stimulation 6) Subliminal Visual Stimulation: A study of its Influence 7) Changes in the Effects of a Wakin

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
General Introduction	1	(28)
Howard Shevrin
Part I: Empirical--Clinical Studies
Introduction	29	(8)
Howard Shevrin
Dreams and Perception: The Role of Preconscious and Primary Modes of Perception in Dream Formation (1954)	37	(60)
Dreams, Images, and Perception: A Study of Unconscious-Preconscious Relationships (1956)	97	(46)
A Study of the Preliminary Stages of the Construction of Dreams and Images (1957)	143	(58)
Further Observations on the Potzl Phenomenon: The Effects of Subliminal Visual Stimulation on Dreams, Images, and Hallucinations (1959)	201	(50)
Part II: Experimental Collaborative Studies
Introduction	247	(4)
Howard Shevrin
The Effect of Subliminal Visual Stimulation on Images and Dreams: A Validation Study (1959)	251	(48)
Charles Fisher
I. H. Paul
Subliminal Visual Stimulation: A Study of Its Influence on Subsequent Images and Dreams (1959)	299	(46)
I. H. Paul
Charles Fisher
Changes in the Effects of a Waking Subliminal Stimulus as a Function of Dreaming and Nondreaming Sleep (1967)	345	(16)
Howard Shevrin
Charles Fisher
Eye Fixation Behavior as a Function of Awareness (1968)	361	(22)
Lester Luborsky
Richard Rice
Donald Phoenix
Charles Fisher
Name Index	383	(4)
Subject Index	387