The Relationship of the REM State to Analytical Psychology
THOMAS B. KIRSCH M.D.1
1 Clinical assistant, department of psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif., and consultant, psychiatric training program, Agnews State Hospital, Agnews, Calif.
A brief review of Jung's approach to dreams is presented. The author reviews four investigations of REM research that relate to analytical psychology: control of sleep by a dual mechanism; selective REM deprivation; effects of drugs on the time of dreaming; and the study of REM state in the earliest stage of postnatal life. This renewed interest may provide a new methodology for the study of dreams.
