Daydreams and the Function of Fantasy

M. Regis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

273 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-30076-8 (ISBN)

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This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions.

Meta Regis is an English teacher at Stella Maris College, Australia. She received her PhD from Macquarie University, Australia in 2006 and was previously a Tutor in Philosophy and Seminar Leader in Psychology at Macquarie.

1. Obsessive Fans and Daydreaming Computers - A New Model of Daydreaming 2. Empirical Studies on Daydreaming 3. The Major Models of Daydreaming 4. Frequent Daydreaming Populations and Systems of Fantasy Immersion 5. The Inner Workings of Fantasy: Daydreams as Natural Advertisements 6. Celebrity Worship and Fantasy Immersion 7. Escapes into Fiction: Violent Sexual Fantasy, Magical Reversal and Human Sexuality 8. The Origins of Daydreaming: Self-Soothing Practices in Early Childhood 9. General Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.2013
Zusatzinfo	VII, 273 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-30076-0 / 1137300760
ISBN-13	978-1-137-30076-8 / 9781137300768
Zustand	Neuware