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Dream Analysis



Dream analysis is a therapy that works on the theory that dreams can give us insight into ourselves, encourage us to become more involved in our own self-awareness and growth, and allow us to explore our psychic unconscious world. Sigmund Freud, who first pioneered psychoanalysis in the earlier twentieth century, placed heavy emphasis on dream analysis as part of his work, as a way to see our repressions. Carl Jung also placed heavy importance on the meaning of dreams, although he saw them more as a connection between conscious and subconscious, showing our potential for change. Dream analysis is usually led by a therapist, whereas dreamwork is a more individual study of dreams with a broader array of tools for exploration.

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Dream Theories Freud, Activation Synthesis Hypothesis | MCAT | Khan Academy

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The Interpretation of Dreams: The Psychology Classic (Capstone Classics)

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams introduced his ground-breaking theory of the unconscious and explored how interpreting dreams can reveal the true nature of humanity.

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Dream Analysis

Most theoretical models use the basic tenets of dream analysis in the same way: A person in therapy relates a dream to the therapist, discussion and processing follows, and new information is gleaned from the dream.

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FindCenterThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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Dreams Must Be Taken Literally. Dreams in Psychoanalysis #4 with Dr. Leon Brenner

In the fourth video of our "Dreams in psychoanalysis" series, Dr. Leon Brenner discusses the complexity of dream analysis in Freud's famous case of Butcher's witty wife.

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The Dream Frontier

The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience.

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Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung's “Active Imagination”

Jung believed we could unlock both the conflicts and cures hidden in our dreams.

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FindCenterDreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.

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Taking Your Dreams Seriously. Presented by James Hollis, Ph.D.

A conversation with Jungian analyst James Hollis. “Respect your dreams. Nature doesn’t waste energy. It’s seeking to communicate to us in some way which, if we pay attention, may begin to heal some of the splits that we all carry.” James Hollis, Ph.D.

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The Dream and the Underworld

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.

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