Psycho-dynamic therapy- dream analysis

Question 1

how is dream analysis therapy linked to the unconscious mind assumption?

Answer 1

• show any negative childhood experiences and phobias that have been repressed into the unconscious mind

Question 2

how is dream analysis therapy linked to the tripartite personality assumption?

Answer 2

• Freud believed that when a person is dreaming, the superego is repressed and the Id is given free rein
• dreams represent the Ids motives, wishes and desires that would be socially unacceptable in the working world

Question 3

how is dream analysis therapy linked to the childhood experiences assumption?

Answer 3

• any traumatic event that has occurred during early childhood may have been repressed and may surface in the form of dreams

Question 4

What are the 5 steps to dream analysis?

Answer 4

• dreamer recalls manifest content to therapist
• process of dream work (latent content transferred to the manifest content to understand the dream)
• five processes of dream-work
• therapist reverses the dream work process to find the underlying meaning of the dream
• therapist considers the context of the clients life allowing them to choose an interpretation

Question 5

manifest content meaning

Answer 5

what dreamer remembers

Question 6

latent content meaning

Answer 6

meaning of dream

Question 7

what are the 5 main processes of dream-work

Answer 7

• condensation
• displacement
• representation
• symbolism
• secondary elaboration

Question 8

condensation

Answer 8

condensing all elements of the latent content and representing them in one image/picture

Question 9

displacement

Answer 9

the emotion linked to one experience or idea is detached and attached to another (what the dream seems to be about is very different to its actual meaning)

Question 10

representation

Answer 10

describing the dream using words to describe the visual image we have in our heads.

Question 11

symbolism

Answer 11

any significant features of the dream are replaced with a symbol

Question 12

secondary elaboration

Answer 12

the unconscious collects all the images within the dream and fir them together in order to make sense of them. However, this disguises the latent content.

Question 13

what can we use it to treat

Answer 13

phobias, confidence issues, smoking, eating disorders

Question 14

Quote freud on dream analysis

Answer 14

“where Id was, there shall ego be’

Question 15

what did freud say about neurosis?

Answer 15

• caused by repressed desires shown through dreams
• the logic of the ego would take place of the emotion of id

Question 16

Solms (2000)

Answer 16

• connected types of behaviour with achievements
• when the part of the brain which relates to ‘searching’ is damaged, dreams stop altogether
• this supports Freuds idea

Question 17

Matt and Navarro (1997)

Answer 17

• 75% of clients receiving dream analysis showed signs of improvements

Question 18

Schredl et al (2000)

Answer 18

• 70% of patients in private practice reported benefits of working through dreams

Question 19

ethical issues of dream analysis

Answer 19

• may uncover distressing memories for the client
• false memory

Question 20

false memory syndrome

Answer 20

• An individuals identity and relationships are influenced by false memories that they believe to be true
• may only believe its true because the therapist who has authority says so

Question 21

what questions the validity of the therapy?

Answer 21

• the reporting of dreams is dependent on the subjective memory of the client
• (no definite answer)

Question 22

meaning of subjective analysis

Answer 22

no definite answer

Question 23

Denment and Kleitman

Answer 23

• different stages of sleep where activity changes
• REM stage where people are more likely to wake up due to there being more movement of their eyes
• this suggests that dreams happen randomly
• unlikely there is a psychological connection to achievements

Question 24

Hobson and Mcarlley (1997)

Answer 24

• Dreams are nothing but commands sent from the brain
• simply thinking whilst we sleep