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Freudian dream theory
Freudian dream theory Freud (1900/1961) claimed that dreams were attempts to fulfill peremptory wishes, arising during sleep, derived from appetitive (‘libidinal’) urges. He based this claim on findings from a purely subjective method: he collected dreamers’ associations to the individual elements of their dreams and then inferred implicit, underlying themes from the converging semantic and [...]
How psychology can become true science?
Extant conclusions by psychologists, such as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Fromm, Laing, Skinner, Maslow, Allport, Lewin, Carl Rogers, Eysenck, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ellis, Becks etc are interesting speculations on the nature of human behavior but not science. None of those conjectures have been demonstrated as true. It is only when we can show the self [...]
Living with children
For 30 years, Gastonia resident John Rosemond has been providing useful information and tactics on handling everything from preschooler’s biting to teens staying out past curfew to harried parents. And beginning today, his words of wisdom begin appearing in The Gazette on Sundays. The addition of Rosemond’s column to the newspaper comes at a time [...]
Cosmetic Surgery Addiction
Dr. Robert Guida, a Manhattan Facial Cosmetic Surgeon at the New York Center for Plastic Surgery, describes the symptoms and treatments for plastic surgery addiction. People who have a serious addiction to cosmetic surgery often have extremely poor body images, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dr. Guida explains the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment for this [...]
Dream Theorists – Sigmund Freud
Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the study of dreams with his work “The Interpretation Of Dreams”. Freud began to analyze dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believed that nothing we did occurred by chance; every action and thought is motivated by our unconscious [...]