Monografiya kandidata psikhologicheskikh nauk S.A.Parfent'eva posvyashchena psikhologii snovideniy i metodam diagnostiki lichnosti s pomoshch'yu analiza snovideniy. V rabote rassmatrivaetsya evolyutsiya vzglyadov na fenomen: ot arkhaicheskikh traditsiy i kul'tur do sovremennykh nauchnykh issledovaniy sna i snovideniy. Provoditsya analiz sovremennykh psikhologicheskikh kontseptsiy snovideniya. Opisany modeli i tekhniki, kotorye mogut ispol'zovat'sya v samoissledovanii i rabote psikhologa-konsul'tanta. Avtorom predlozhena integrativnaya model' snovideniya kak glubinnogo mekhanizma samoaktualizatsii lichnosti, osvoeniya real'nosti i adaptatsii k sotsiumu. Rassmotreny voprosy strukturnogo postroeniya snovideniy, predlozheny tekhniki analiza syuzhetov. Kniga soderzhit bogatyy prakticheskiy material. V polnom ob"eme predstavleno provedennoe avtorom issledovanie vliyaniya aktsentuatsiy i klinicheskoy psikhopatologii na soderzhanie snovideniy. Otdel'naya glava posvyashchena tekhnikam operativnoy diagnostiki tekushchego psikhoemotsional'nogo sostoyaniya cheloveka, a takzhe ispol'zovaniyu materiala snovideniy pri izuchenii ustoychivykh chert kharaktera. Rabota budet interesna shirokomu krugu chitateley, a takzhe spetsialistam: psikhologam, psikhoterapevtam, psikhiatram.