Dream Psychology

Dream Psychology is written in a simple, popular way which makes it readable and understandable by almost any one, without technical preparation or without special information regarding the psychoanalytic psychology. The style is very clear and the various matters discussed are put in a way which should be of considerable help in spreading a sympathetic attitude towards psychoanalysis. The author is evidently a strong adherent of the Zurich school rather than of the more strictly Freudian, and discusses psychoanalysis and the dream more particularly from this point of view. He especially utilizes the method of what he calls constructive interpretation both of symptoms and of dreams rather than of the more purely reductive analysis of Freud. In other words, instead of simply trying to split things up into the material of which they are made, he believes that the dream should be considered from a teleological point of view.