SECTION 4.3 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING PROJECTIVE TESTS

Psychoanalytic Dream Analysis

Another favorite of Psychoanalytic therapists, dream interpretation allows the assessor to find themes and hidden meaning in the patients dreams. Freud believed that all dreams consist of manifest, or obvious content, and latent, or hidden content.

This assessment tool is highly subjective.

Many psychologists feel that the term “dream” analysis is a misnomer. The cognitive construct of dreams are still not well understood, and some cognitive scientists believe that what we think of “dreams” is simply our conscious mind piecing together as best it can incoherent stimuli once we awake. Thus, “dream” analysis can be looked at a form of introspective psychoanalysis.

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