Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung noticed the kinship of normal dreaming with psychoses of severe mental illness, such as schizophrenic and affective disorders. The presence in both of hallucinations and delusions, cognitive abnormalities and emotional intensifications had also been emphasized by earlier, more physiologically oriented psychiatrists, but the psychoanalysts soon eschewed neurobiology and attempted to explain both dreams and psychosis psychodynamically, without reference to the brain. A century of progress in neurobiology and in sleep and dream research now encourages a new look at this old question.
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