Dream therapy

• • Psychoanalysis refers to the idea of talking about repressed negative emotions and memories to bring them out of the unconscious, making a client feel better (catharsis). Dream analysis is used in psychoanalysis.
• • The tripartite personality can be attributed to dream analysis, as the ID containing our impulsive desires and drives that may be socially unacceptable.
• • However, when we are asleep, ego defences are low. This results in us being able to act our unacceptable desires in an acceptable way.
• 4 components of dream analysis

  1. dreams as wish fulfilment
  2. the symbolic nature of dreams
  3. dreamwork
  4. role of the therapist