INTRODUCTION
One of the great discoveries of modern psychiatry is that the true causes of mental disorders lie in various childhood experiences. But these experiences are not easily recalled in the mind. As a child grows up after birth, it encounters many experiences, including many bitter and painful feelings. But as the child grows older, those experiences tend to fade from his mind. But they do not disappear completely, they accumulate in the unconscious level of the mind. If those experiences can be brought from the unconscious level to the conscious level, it becomes relatively easy and possible to treat the person’s mental disorder.
In treating mental disorders, psychologist Sigmund Freud realized that the individual needed a special method to bring out repressed experiences in the mind, and he called that method analysis. In treating mental disorders, psychologist Sigmund Freud realized that a special method was needed to bring out the repressed experiences of the individual’s mind, and he called that method the method of analysis. Among the various analytical methods, Freud’s breakthrough discovery is the dream analysis method.
WHAT IS DREAMING?
Dream interpretations might be subjective, but they can also reflect underlying hopes and desires, summarise and absorb information from the day, and decode unpredictable signals from the body and brain while you sleep. Dreams are defined as a sequence of ideas, feelings, or visions that come to mind while you’re asleep.
KEY CONCEPT
Freud put up a number of significant dream theories. They are discussed below : –
1. EXTRINSIC CONCEPT :
The actual things that a dreamer remembers when they wake up are the events and components of the dream. It is the dream’s surface-level narrative.
2. INTRINSIC CONCEPT:
Dream analysis is the key to grasping this underlying meaning. This is frequently symbolic, signifying conflicts or latent impulses. Freud thought that dreams use metaphor and symbolism to cover up these hidden meanings.
3. DESIRE SATISFACTION:
Freud believed that dreams are the unconscious mind’s means of fulfilling desires that the conscious mind either suppresses or deems unacceptable. These impulses find a hidden, unrestricted venue for expression in dreams.
CONCLUSION
Although dreams are expressions of the unconscious mind, there are some difficulties in presenting dream analysis as a reliable tool in the treatment of mental disorders. A person’s dreams may not directly indicate the person’s problem; they have to be interpreted with some symbols. In all these cases, different psychiatrists express the meaning of dreams in different ways, such as the meaning of a snake seen in a dream. Different people interpret different meanings. For all these reasons, dream analysis cannot be completely relied upon in the treatment of mental disorders. But there are many benefits. For the dream to be purely symbolic, the person’s problem is not exactly revealed, but we get an idea of the person’s problem. Therefore, dream analysis is an important method in the treatment of mental disorders.