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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This work is highly recommended because it is the only book available in English to offer a theoretical model of dreaming as the development of higher thought processes. Relying on contemporary research in cognitive psychology, Foulkes discusses dreaming as an aspect of information processing, but manages to avoid the overly simplistic computer analogies offered by other theories. Instead he suggests a a developmental theory of dreaming involving consciousness development, language skills (particularly inner speech), and the ability to make mental representations. Soviet psychologist Lev Semenovich Vygotsky made essentially the same argument in 1932 in his untranslated lecture, ``The Development of Imagination in Children.'' Foulkes makes only a passing reference to Soviet psychology, which is peculiar, for such inquiry had a significant impact on American psycholinguistics, which Foulkes often cites. Foulkes too easily dismisses Freud's theory of repression, and his superficial treatment of Freud's mechanisms of dream-work is unjustified. Nevertheless, the book is a good attempt to apply contemporary cognitive psychology to the study of dreams. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates.-F. Smolucha, Moraine Valley Community College