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Dreams and dreaming: The current state of the art

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    Claude H. Miller (Practicing Psychoanalyst; Fellow)

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Delivered January 23, 1974, for the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

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Miller, C.H. Dreams and dreaming: The current state of the art. Am J Psychoanal 35, 135–146 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01358185

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