Therapy

Question 1

What are the 4 main components of dream therapy?

Answer 1

Dreams as wish fulfilment
The symbolic nature of dreams
Dreamwork
Role of therapist

Question 2

What did Freud believe dreams were?

Answer 2

Freud believed that dreams are the unconscious fulfilment of wishes that can not be satisfied in the conscious mind

Question 3

What is the latent content of a dream?

Answer 3

The real, underlying meaning of a dream

Question 4

What is the manifest content of a dream?

Answer 4

The content you actually experience

Question 5

What does Freud suggest about the symbolic nature of dreams?

Answer 5

Freud believes that a dreams contents are expressed symbolically, the latent content of a dream is transformed into manifest content , which can be interpreted by a psychoanalyst

Question 6

what is dreamwork?

Answer 6

The latent content of a dream is transformed into manifest content through the process of dream work, which is a process that represses wishes

Question 7

List the stages of dream work

Answer 7

Condensation
Displacement
Representation
Symbolism
Secondary elaboration

Question 8

What is the role of the therapist in dream analysis?

Answer 8

The therapist is there to reverse the dreamwork process to decode the manifest content back to latent content , but suggests various interpretations based on patients’ feedback and knowledge of life experiences

Question 9

What is a strength of dream analysis?

Answer 9

Research suppports it - Solms (2000) used PET scans to highlight regions of the brain during dreaming, the rational part of the brain is inactive during REM sleep , whereas the areas focused on motivation and memory were very active

Question 10

What are 3 weaknesses of dream analysis?

Answer 10

Unhealthy therapist-client relationship
False memory syndrome (FMS)
Risk of Emotional harm

Question 11

Explain why dream analysis may lead to an unhealthy patient-client relationship

Answer 11

The therapist takes such a central part in helping the patient that it causes a large power imbalance , the client (as they are likely to be mentally unstable) may over-rely on the therapist an unhealthy amount

Question 12

What is False memory syndrome?

Answer 12

FMS is when a person’s identity and relationships are severely affected by false memories of traumatic experiences, as dream analysis is used to ‘uncover’ repressed memories they may ‘remember’ something that never happened because the therapist suggested it

Question 13

What is the risk for emotional harm for dream analysis?

Answer 13

The memory which is uncovered may cause patients much more emotional harm than what it was unconsciously causing them when it was repressed