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• Winner of Winner of the Gradiva Prize for the Best Historica.

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Lynn Gamwell has collected an extraordinary selection of portraits, pictures, and essays related to dreams, compiled into an exquisite book. It would be a pleasurable addition to your dream library and adornment to your coffee table. . . The incredible creative power of the dream excites the reader of this fine volume. . . Well worth purchasing and perusing. -Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer 2001

Although it is an exhibition catalog... it stands alone as solid cultural history and fascinating reading... Well produced, informative, and accessable, this book will appeal to readers involved with psychology, any of the arts, or Western history in general. -Library Journal. January, 2000. A handsome catalogue ... contains a more comprehensive view of the unconscious... Gamwell briefly opens an intriguing door for us. -Fred Bendheim, Lancet. January, 2000. This large-format, richly illustrated book commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams... General readers; undergraduate and graduate students; professionals. -Choice, Sept. 2000, Vol. 38, No. 1. Lynn Gamwell has collected an extraordinary selection of portraits, pictures, and essays related to dreams, compiled into an exquisite book. It would be a pleasurable addition to your dream library and adornment to your coffee table... The incredible creative power of the dream excites the reader of this fine volume... Well worth purchasing and perusing. -Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer 2001

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Lynn Gamwell is Director of the Art Museum at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and she curates the Gallery of Art and Science in cooperation with the New York Academy of Sciences. She is coauthor with Donald Kuspit of Health and Happiness in Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Art and with Nancy Tomes of Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914, both from Cornell.

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