At Play in the Fields of Consciousness

This book provides a state-of-the-art look at the study of consciousness which is in the midst of a great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career it demonstrates the broad and integrative influence the study of consciousness has across a variety of subdisciplines of psychology--experimental personality developmental social and clinical. The contributors are pioneers in the study of consciousness and contemporary researchers. This volume is a landmark statement about psychology's understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and cognitive processes the development of imagination in children and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.