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Article: Analysts won't allow dream theory to rest
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 1, 1987
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Move over, Freud, the new-age analyst can tell you a lot more
about dreaming than you ever dreamed.
And the findings - that dreaming is part of a rich physiological
process involved more with memory consolidation than with past
psychological trauma - may change what takes place on the therapeutic
couch.
"Freud's theory did not fit with what we were finding about the
physiology of sleep," said Dr. David Hawkins, a professor of
psychiatry at the University of Chicago. "Dreaming has something to
do with information processing, consolidation of memories and
relating things to past experiences.