Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed FeelingsAn Abstract of a Dissertation
Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings
This study sets out to determine how dreams can be used in a therapeutic environment to discuss feelings from a dream, and how the therapist should engage the patient to discuss them to reveal the relevance of those feelings, in their present, waking life. It also discusses the meaning of repetitious dreams, how medication affects the content of a dreamer's dreams, and if therapists actually "guide" their clients in what to say. This "guidance" might be the therapist "suggesting" to their clients that they had suffered some type of early childhood trauma, when in fact, there were no traumas in their early childhoods. The origin of psychiatry is not, as it would have people believe, medicine, therapy or any other even faintly scientific endeavor. Its original purpose was not even to cure mental affliction.
Working hard behind this scene is the psychiatrist, dispensing everything from his pernicious "insanity defense" in the courts — thereby helping dangerous criminals escape justice — to his mind-numbing drugs within the prisons. Of course, with high rates of inmate illiteracy and drug abuse, it is reasonable to assume that educational psychiatry was on the scene years before the inmate committed any crime, busily "helping" children with an earlier promise to improve education — with, of all things, addictive, mind-numbing drugs.
It also examines the effects of sertraline http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Articles/tm.gif
) on the dream content of a young woman with generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks. The study uses the major categories of Hall and Van de Castle's (1966) system of content analysis to compare dream reports before and after drug treatment. Prior to diagnosis and treatment, the dreamer had high levels of aggression and low levels of friendliness in her dreams. The post-medication dreams more closely approximate the female norms. This pilot study suggests a new direction for research on the effects of medication on dream content.
Dreams reflect what people think about, and if a client is told that they had horrible trauma in their early childhood, they will think about that, reflect on that, and in return, dream about it. This study also makes recommendations about therapeutic approaches and future dream and feelings studies.
Abstract
Chapters
Introduction
Statement of goal achieved
Relevance to the Field
Barriers and Issues
Elements Investigated
Limitations/Delimitations
Definition of Terms
Review of the Literature
Historical Overview
Research Literature Specific to Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach
Summary of the Known and Unknown
Contribution to the Field
Methodology
Research Methods
Specific Procedures
Presentation of Results
Resources Used
Reliability and Viability
Summary
Results
Data Analysis
Findings
Summary of Results
Conclusions, Implications, Recommendations, and Summary
Reference List
Chapter 1
Introduction
Statement of Problem/Goal Achieved
It was a weird dream—he contemplated divorcing her, because she was too sick for him to take care of anymore. They decided to try to work it out at their son's and his family's place. But then, they didn't have anywhere else to stay, because they were from out of town. But a friend of the man's son told them that he had a posh apartment in a very nice apartment tower that they could use, much like the ones in the big cities, such as Chicago. But when the son and his family went to check out the apartment, they found out that it was very trashy and completely run down...in the meantime, the son's wife, the dreamer Tina, found her father in law very attractive, and tried to seduce him. Then the dreamer woke up.
This dream was from a dream journal of Tina from the dream. She had dreamed that she was the main character in the dream, and set forth seducing her father in law. Now obviously, she did not want to seduce her father in law in her waking life, and never wanted him to divorce his wife. The son of the dream, the dreamer's husband Stephen, had worked with that friend with the apartment, who had recently started a business directly in competition with Stephen. Currently in their waking lives,...
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