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• the psychodynamic approach sees mental and behavioral disorders as coming from the unconscious mind
• usually due to repressed thoughts or unresolved desires of the id
• to treat disorders, analyst must access the patients unconscious mind
• one way to do this is through dream analysis
• when we sleep, our ego defences are relaxed and material in our unconscious enters our conscious
• the material is disguised and symbols represent the real content. This process is known as dreamwork
• the dream that we remember is the manifest content and the actual meaning is the latent content.
• the aim of dream analysis is to uncover hidden messages and reveal the unconscious conflicts