The Central Image Makes "Big" Dreams Big: The Central Image as the Emotional Heart of the Dream

Dreaming

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-57

  Hartmann, Ernest ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

big dreams; central image; contemporary theory; dreaming; dreams

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049113216     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1053-0797.18.1.44     Document Type: Article

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