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The other important part of Freud 's evolution of dream interpretation deals with the practice of `association . What this means is that Freud would ask a novice patient , if he or she could not easily represent their entire dream experience , to break it into segments , and in discussing those segments , to try to associate them with something with which they are already familiar (McLeod . In this way , Freud asserts the dream can correctly be interpreted as a symptom of a psychological ill , not just a random piece of brain activity or an obsession

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What Freud 's Dream Interpretation Means for Us Today

Finally , we can reach some conclusions about what Freud 's interpretation methods mean for the modern psychiatrist , psychiatric patient , and student . If in fact dreams , as Freud believed , are symptoms to be read by a qualified individual with the help of the patient , then the mind holds the illness as well as the cure Therefore , the relief of psychological illness is within reach of patient and physician alike . The challenge , however , lies in being able to skillfully find the cure , which depends heavily on all parties involved

Sigmund Freud devoted his life to studying the human mind and its details , and his methods for dream interpretation are still valid today This essay has given examples of this , and as many as were shown here many more exist as well References

Freud , Ernst L , ed . Letters of Sigmund Freud . New York : Basic Books 1960

McLeod , Malcolm N "The Evolution of Freud 's Theory about Dreaming Psychoanalytic Quarterly 61 .1 (1992 : 37-64

Strachey , James , ed . The Interpretation of Dreams . 1st ed . New York Basic Books , 1955

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