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The Topographic Model, the Dynamic Unconscious, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Dreams | The Use of Dreams in Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychiatry | Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams: Why Is It Important? | Psychodynamic Dream Theory and Neuroscience | Exploring the Meaning of Dreams | Chapter Summary and Chart of Core Dimensions | References

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This chapter explains how dreams are understood and used in contemporary psychodynamic psychiatry. It also examines how dream theory has been updated and discusses dream theory from neighboring disciplines. Vocabulary introduced in this chapter includes the following: activation-synthesis hypothesis, day residue, dream, dream work, latent dream thoughts, manifest dream, and self-state dreams.

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