Dream Psychology

• Chapter 1: Dreams Have a Meaning

• Chapter 2: The Dream Mechanism

• Chapter 3: Why the Dream Disguises the Desires

• Chapter 4: Dream Analysis

• Chapter 5: Sex in Dreams

• Chapter 6: The Wish in Dreams

• Chapter 7: The Function of the Dream

• Chapter 8: The Primary & Secondary Process: Regression

• Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality

Freud was moved by the fact that there always seemed to be a close connection between his patients' dreams and their mental abnormalities, and he began to collect thousands of dreams and to compare them with the case histories in his possession.

He did not start out with a preconceived bias, hoping to find evidence which might support his views. He looked at facts a thousand times "until they began to tell him something."

His attitude toward dream study was, in other words, that of a statistician who does not know, and has no means of foreseeing, what conclusions will be forced on him by the information he is gathering, but who is fully prepared to accept those unavoidable conclusions. This was indeed a novel way in psychology. Freud is the father of modern abnormal psychology and he established the psychoanalytical point of view. No one who is not well grounded in Freudian lore can hope to achieve any work of value in the field of psychoanalysis. Dream Psychology is the key to Freud's works and to all modern psychology.