Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Freud's (1900) dream theory
- Unconscious thoughts guide a lot of our behaviour
- 90% of our thinking is unconscious
- Dreamwork
- What the unconscious mind is doing whilst dreaming to protect an
individual from undesirable thoughts
- Condensation
- Many ideas appearing as one symbol in a dream
- Secondary elaboration
- Something unimportant shifted to being important to
take away focus from true meaning
- Displacement
- Added things to a dream during recollection in order to have
the cream make sense
- Repression is a way of forgetting undesirable thoughts by
pushing them into the unconscious
- Strengths
- Used unique methods to find difficult to access data
- He considered that phobias could be the cause of mental problems.
- Gathered qualitative about real life (valid data)
- Rich detail about real life (valid) over a long period of time was used for dream analysis
- Weaknesses
- His sample was biased
- Worked primarily with rich Viennese families
- His concepts were unmeasurable
- There is no way it can be measured, and cannot be proven
- He interpreted his findings, meaning they could be biased
- This means they could be subective
- There is an alternative biological theory, the activation-synthesis theory
- Dream Analysis
- Freud's way of interpreting dreams is known as
psychoanalysis
- Free association
- A method of asking a patient to say their thoughts out loud in
order to try and find links
- Slip of the tongue
- An accidental use of a word analysed in order to
identify unconscious thoughts
- Dream analysis
- A way of using free association to understand a person's
unconscious thoughts
- Strengths
- It can access hard to reach information
- It is usually accepted by the client
- It uses the information from the client directly
- Weaknesses
- There may be ethical problems
- The participant may be given false memory
- It involves interpretation which is subjective