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Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (February 23, 2010)
As a psychotherapist I recognize that dreams are not the doorway to the unconscious but rather the window to the unconscious mind, its desires, impulses, and motivations. People like to give their egos and conscious minds too much credit for the decisions and actions in their daily lives. One must take into consideration that the average person has about 80,000 thoughts per day and according to most psychologists about 95% of those are repetitive thoughts that also occurred in their conscious mind yesterday or the day before. This helps to illustrate that we are, for the most part, driving on auto pilot in our daily lives. This begs the question of who is in charge, or as biologist Bruce Lipton has phrased it, "who is the wizard behind the curtain" in our choices and actions in our lives? The answer to this is question is that our unconscious minds are the real driver and pilot navigating our lives and not our conscious mind that is thinking redundant thoughts, like a broken record, throughout most of our day.
In order to gain a better understanding of the `wizard behind the curtain"--the pilot of our lives-- we must be willing to take an honest and uncensored examination and assessment of our dreams. It is in our dreams, when our conscious mind is unable to censor our true desires and motivations, that the "wizard" is revealed to us. Strachey's translation of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text" provides an excellent and comprehensive foundation to the topic of understanding, deciphering, and interpreting and understanding how our unconscious reveals itself to us via our dreams.
While some reviewers have stated that Strachey's translation is hard to read and has too many "archaic words" and lengthy sentences, I would have to disagree.Read more ›
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The Interpretation of Dreams is one of the many important psychology works published by Freud. It's primary purpose was to figure out and deduce the purpose of dreams and how conscious material makes it's way into dreams.
He draws his evidence from large body of work starting with his own dreams as well as the dreams of many different case studies he researched. He also compares his research to that of the current psychological work published at the time.
He uses the dream framework to put forward his ideas of the unconscious and the preconscious and how they work together to form dreams. This is theorized possible by transitioning left over thoughts in the preconscious with repressed or unconscious thoughts to form dreams. That is a rough outline of the theory but if you want to know more you're going to have to read the book.
Now to the point of the review, up until the time period of Freud there wasn't any form of treatment of the mentally ill, they were for the most part put in asylums, jailed or housed out of the public eye. Because of Freud's one on one work with patients we get the groundwork for psychological treatment. He was not the first to think but his constant use of it effectively helped codify it's use a place in history.
Psychological treatment is now often thought of as something you can get with a counselor, psychiatrist, or psychologist. But in ancient times it was a religious disease, medieval times were put away, jailed or killed. Now we have a system in place as well as a litany of psychological diseases on record.
There is still a negative stigma for the mentally ill and the system is by no means perfect but without the work of Freud and others like him we would not where we are today as we attempt to help people.Read more ›
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