Dream analysis
- Created by: isobel
- Created on: 15-06-13 11:48
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- Dream analysis
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- see's mental illness as coming from unconscious thoughts and emotions that have been repressed.
- when we are asleep our ego's defences are more relaxed so material from our unconscious can become conscious in a dream.
- the material is still a threat to our health so it has to be disguised, symbols are used to represent what is in our unconscious.
- The manifest content of the dream is what we remember of the dream.
- The latent content is what the symbols actually mean.
- the analyst has to uncover what the symbols mean, and needs to be done over a period of time so that several dreams can be analysed.
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- HEATON- found 88% of clients preferred therapists to interpret their dreams rather than themselves, feeling they got more insight and depth from the therapists interpretation,so it does seem to help them.
- LEICHSENRING- found that brief dynamic therapy which uses dream analysis is as effective as CBT
- GOTTDEINER & HASLAM- found that psychoanalysis and CBT were equally effective with 67% of paitients gaining improvementscompatred to 34% of the control group with no treatment
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- is subjective, different analysts may interpret the same dream differently- reducing reliability.
- the client may not tell the analyst the whole dream; they may forget bits of it or may edit the dream, either way important information is lost.
- ESPOSTIO ET AL- studied vietnam veterans with post traumatic distress disorder and found 50% of ppts dreams included features of combat whilst 79%had distorted elements of combat in dreams showing they didnt use symbols.
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