Talk:Dreamwork

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[edit] Improvements

I've done a bit of editing for POV - there's still some there but it seems difficult to remove without gutting the article (which would remove far too much of the substance) or totally rewriting (which I don't think I could do well). At the moment the article is a fairly simply description of how dreamworking happens, but written in a fairly normative way(for instance "it is best if.."). It would be good to get some analysis of dreamwork's effectiveness and/or its impact on the dream interpretation world. It's not clear to me from this article how well accepted dreamwork is in the dream interpretation field, what its perceived strengths and weaknesses are and even why someone would participate (what's the point? therapy? personal growth? Will it help people with some forms of mental illness? Does participating extend life expectancy, improve perceived happiness levels, lower stress? etc.).

Also, we really need some references - surely there are some academic journal articles somewhere...-- SiobhanHansa 13:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other sense of "dreamwork"

I came to this page looking for information on the "dream-work" (die Traumwerk) described by Freud. In Freudian dream-interpretation, the "dream-work" is the name of the mental process that converts the dreamer's anxieties, thoughts, desires, etc., into a dream. It is the engine that produces the dream out of the available psychological raw materials. I kind of suspect that this sense of the term is in wider use than the one described on this page, but I'm not sure. Tcassedy 00:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)