effectiveness

• point :)

  dream analysis has found to be effective in treating mental disorders such as depression or anxiety
• example :)

  • Matt and Navarro (1997) in a review of 63 meta-analyses on the effect of psychotherapy found on average, 75% of clients receiving dream analysis showed improvements.
  • Schredl et al. (2000) found in a survey of psychotherapists in private practice that approximately 70% of patients reported benefits of working through dreams.
• explain :)

  these studies illustrate the benefits of dream analysis on uncovering the root cause of these disorders.
• link :)

  however, psychotherapy using dream analysis is less common than other forms of psychotherapy such as talking therapy or hypnosis
• point :(

  there is limited scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of dream analysis
• example :(

  Hobson and McCarthy (1997) argue that dreams are nothing but commands sent from the brain and are simply a form of "thinking that happens while we sleep"
• explain :(

  this questions Freud's theories such as psychosexual development, the Oedipus and Electra complex and the role of the unconscious mind as they don't have a lot of evidence supporting them, and so are very subjective and open to interpretation
• link :(

  as dream analysis cannot be scientifically validated, it is difficult to support Freud's idea of wish fulfillment in dream with any other research.