Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists.

Pick, Roper,Introduction. Grubrich-Simitis (Translated from the German By Arnold J. Pomerans), How Freud Wrote and Revised his Interpretation Of Dreams. Dreams and Desire in Ancient and Early Christian Thought. Bachorski (Translated from the German by Pamela E. Selwyn) Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature. Crawford, Women's Dreams in Early Modern England. Ford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Pains of Sleep. Perkins,The Meaning of Dream Books. Heraeus (Translated from the German By Deborah Laurie Cohen), Artists and the Dream in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Towards a Prehistory of Surrealism. Hayward, Policing Dreams: History and the Moral Uses of the Unconscious. Wigzell, The Dreambook in Russia. Cameron, Forrester 'A Nice Type of the English Scientist': Tansley and Freud. Pick, Roper, Psychoanalysis, Dreams, History: An Interview with Hanna Segal. O'Shaughnessy, A Dream to Dream. Budd, The Shark Behind the Sofa: Recent Developments in the Theory of Dreams.

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London.
Lyndal Roper is Professor of Early Modern History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.