Talk:Oneirophobia

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This is a stub. Please expand. Do not delete. Oneirophobia is an increasingly used term to describe the fear of dreams. The term was first mentioned in The Dream Frontier, a book that integrates clinical work and scientific study of dreams, written by Mark J. Blechner, a neuro-psychoanalyst affiliated with the William Alanson White Institute and New York University. Polly Young-Eisendrath, a Jungian psychoanalyst, writes "[Blechner] dubs this fear 'oneirophobia' and, although I don’t especially like neologisms, I fully understand why he wants to give this fear a name. We face it every day in our clinical work and every morning when we are recalling our own dreams" in her review on The American Psychological Association/Division of Psychoanalysis website.