Dream Interpretation Freud
It is safe to say that Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung changed the face of modern psychology and psychiatry. The impact of these to men extended far beyond their disciplines in the area of caring for the mentally ill and the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Jung and Freud literally redefined how we view the mind and how it works. As such, their influence has been felt throughout culture from philosophy to religion to sociology.
Freud pioneered a number of new ideas and theories about the functioning of the mind and how to go about diagnosing mental disorders. One aspect of his groundbreaking work had to do with dreams and the part they play in the way our minds work. Before Freud and Jung, dream interpretation had little credibility. But is was the work of Jung and his peer, Sigmund Freud that brought dream analysis and interpretation right into the heart of modern psychology and opened up the concept that we can understand more about our minds by knowing what our subconscious selves are expressing through dreams.
Today, if you spend time with a therapist, the content and interpretation of your dreams has a huge importance to the inner workings of your personality. It was Freud that introduced the concept of keeping a "dream journal". This simple practice of writing down in as much detail as you can the dreams you have each night created a methodology to chart the progress of dreams and to use the content of what occurs in your subconscious at night as the raw material for drawing conclusions about the patient's mental state and what should be done to improve the patient's mental health.
Freud also theorized that a primary approach to dealing with clinical depression was through the analysis and interpretation of the patient's dreams. There is plenty of evidence that his theories were on target. We now know that if you are having significant troubles either mentally or emotionally or in some area of your romantic, social or economic life, that is going to generate a lot of subconscious energy that will evidence itself in your dream life.
By documenting that dream life through the use of the dream journal and then using what is learned to help diagnose the cause of depression, the therapist can prescribe treatment both in the form of antidepressant drugs and continued therapy. Many lives have been changed if not saved because of Freud's groundbreaking theories about how to diagnose depression through dream interpretation. And for that, we owe Freud a debt of gratitude.
