title: [Mauro Mancia: the dream between psychoanalysis and neurosciences].
abstract: "Dreaming, in any case, remains a mental activity and not a physiological process, even though it springs from this process". This sentence of Mauro Mancia encapsulates the entire significance of his studies on sleeping/dreaming. A totality of observations and reflections grounded in neurophysiology and psychoanalysis which led him to study and to "see" the two faces of a problem that has engaged man's attention since the remotest antiquity. Mancia has thus given us the resources to see the dream-and not only the dream-with the marvelled eye of the artist who seeks and finds a sense in things and at the same time with the cold eye of the scientist who demands of things only their how and wherefore.
authors.affiliation: Sapienza Università di Roma, I. v.cagli@alice.it
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cagli
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams; D009488:Neurosciences; D011572:Psychoanalysis