
An Example of How Psychoanalysts Really Interpret Dreams
Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files
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What's the Current Thinking in the Psychoanalytic World?
Dreams are wonderful in terms of what they'll tell us and surprise us with. There is some evidence from cognitive studies that freud may not have been entirely wrong about the appearance of information a person would rather forget in his or her dreams. For certain patients, it can be a powerful way to try to access some of what they're feeling. Dreams clearly develop and come out of our unconscious because our mind is working as we sleep.
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