dream analysis

A process purporting to derive information about the state of the unconscious mind by an interpretation of the symbolic significance of the dream content.

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Robert Waldinger, MD, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says that dreams can be quite revealing, but he adds that there is an important distinction between dream analysis and dream interpretation.

In Dreams: How Your Dreams and Nightmares May Give You Insight Into Your Waking Life: Dream analysis is much more about what you associate with your dreams rather than what those sleeping stories symbolize

The narrator's attempts at finding meaning and sense in his experiences are reminiscent of dream analysis, the symbols elusive, multifaceted and possibly just random.

A very strange quest; Welsh writer Richard Gwyn's extraordinary novel The Blue Tent is a triumph, writes Jenny White... AUTHOR'S NOTES

Indeed, the artist revels in the process of chance encounters, free-association and dream analysis, a device initiated by the legendary Viennese psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.

Rishab explores creative daydreaming in 'Transmutations'

Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation.

What We Are Reading Today: History of Modern Psychology by C. G. Jung

The second part describes methods used to understand and interpret dreams, including those of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, dream dictionaries, and how dream analysis can be more objective and how an approach based on scientific research can be helpful in understanding problems of daily life.

Exploring Our Dreams: The Science and the Potential for Self-Discovery

In many cases, the treatment providers just offered what they had found to be personally helpful--for example, 12-Step meetings, behavioral activation, journaling, dream analysis, whatever.

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Meltzer (1984) suggested that dream exploration is more important than dream analysis as it provides a basis for the patient to work with his or her own dreams in the absence of the analyst.

Dream interpretation in theory: drawing on the contributions of Freud, Jung, and the Kleinians

Flagg: I had a strong interest in dream analysis for a long time and that enthusiasm became intensified when I met Clara Stewart, who later became my wife in 1966 (Pearl Eppy, a board member of the New York Society for General Semantics, introduced us).

INTERVIEW WITH ALLEN FLAGG

To Boss (1975/1979), the most relevant existentials for dream analysis are spatiality, temporality, corporeality, attunement or affective disposition, historicity and mortality (finiteness), but not all of them need to be considered.

A comparison of Freudian and Bossian approaches to dreams

Will doctors rush to include drawings and dream analysis in their practices?

The Art of Healing

Tackling such issues as love, marriage, relationships, mental health, and dream analysis, each chapter shows how marketers systemically disrupt the natural rhythms of human life with their relentless advertisements.

America Never Promised Us Happiness (Only the Right to Pursue It)

Extrapolating these concepts to literary dream analysis could have significant ramifications for literary criticism.