Dream Analysis Overview
- Created by: Bham369
- Created on: 09-03-18 13:13
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- Dream Analysis
- Solms (2000)
- Used PET scans on sleeping people
- Found that the part of the brain that is responsible for rationality was inactive
- But the part responsible with memory and motivation were active
- Freud would say that during dreaming the rational ego is dormant while while the irrational Id takes over
- Lacks ecological validity as it was a lab study and sleep deprivation reduces hormone production
- Used PET scans on sleeping people
- Manifest content is what actually appears in the dream
- Latent content is the real meaning behind the dream
- It is NOT the therapist that decides what the dream means but the patient. The therapist simply provides different interpretation
- Evaluation
- Most research is done on sleep deprived humans and animals which affects hormone production
- All supporting research is artificial as it is done in labs
- The latent content can be subjective as different therapists will interpret the dream in different ways
- Therapists can prolong the therapy for financial gain
- Dreamwork
- The process where the latent content is transformed into the manifest content
- The therapist will use it to help find the meaning of the dream
- The actual material in the dream may be from the patients life
- Thoughts are translated into visual images and symbols to replace people and ideas
- Representation and symbolism
- The unconscious mind collects all images and ties them together to make a logical story
- Secondary Elaboration
- The content is condensed into brief images
- Condensation
- The process where the latent content is transformed into the manifest content
- Solms (2000)
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