Carl McCoy

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, dreams are known as “a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep.” Dreams are an essential piece of our lives and societies of individuals around the globe. They are a dependable wellspring of understanding, individual enhancement, and life certifying disclosures. Dreams are also known as the dialect of an individual 's intuitive personality. Several psychologists have researched the study of dreams for centuries. Ever since…

Most people have awakened from a euphoric dream and have tried to fall back asleep to continue the dream. Others are awoken as they jerk themselves awake from a nightmare. Patients with PTSD often claim to have relived traumatic events through their dreams. People are constantly reading books and websites that claim to interpret their dreams because it continues to fascinate the reader. The first dream analysts argued that dreams were meant to tell the future. Sigmund Freud disagreed, however,…

If you do a quick search on Google for Dreams, you will get over 7 million results including the definition of dreams which is “successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep” (“Dream” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 January 2016). That definition sounds so scientific in comparison to the dreams I’ve had and while it is accurate in the science of dreams, I am certain that when you dream it feels like more…

Freud’s Theories Sigmund Freud was a Viennese neurologist. He was born on May 6th 1856 and died on September 23rd 1939. Freud paved the way for modern psychology. Freud was the first to study the mind so in depth as he did. He wrote several books about his theories. Some of his books are The Ego and the Id, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Dream Psychology (Psychoanalysis for Beginners. Although most of his theories were proven to be wrong over time, he still was a major contributor to the…

Analytical psychology was invented by Carl Jung. He and Sigmund Freud worked together for some time but eventually they parted ways and Jung developed his own interpretation of psychology of personality. For example, Freud saw that anything that a person did was because of your sexual desires and that there were three forces that are in a conflict- id, ego, and superego. Jung on the other hand believed that one’s sexuality was more of a symbol and that it cannot be fully analyzed. He also…

The Self-Analysis of Diane Munoz I am a 38 year old single Mexican/American female that is trying her best to finish school. I was born in Houston, Texas in 1976 and moved to the Conroe area when I turned 10. I do not have any children of my very own but I spiritually adopted a young man that I met while working at a detention facility for undocumented minors. He is my biggest joy and my most hurtful pain. I never knew being a mother would be such a hard job. I have been in the dental…

Freud’s popularity can be determined by the fact that the terms he introduced in his research have made their way to 21st century’s vocabulary, some of the well known being; Libido, cathartic, denial and repression. Freud was the founding father of the theory of Psychoanalysis which discusses and studies the human behavior. Freud believed that being humans we hide our real emotions and motives from other sometimes even not with the intention of hiding because humans have the tendency to deceive…

Barrett, Deirdre, and McNamara Patrick. The New Science of Dreaming: Volume 2. Westport: Praeger Perspectives, 2015. Print. This book discusses the modern science behind what caused dreams. This book was published by, Praeger Perspectives. This book in my opinion is very scientific. It discusses the realistic stimulation of dreams, gender differences in dreaming, data, personality, psychotherapy, nightmares, trauma impacts, emotions behind dreaming, and lucid dreaming. I will be using some of…

He wakes up shaken, soaked with sweat, and gasping for breath. Raskolnikov recalls the dreadful way the mare was murdered and he says aloud to himself that of course his plan was just a fantastical one and he reassures himself that “yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it” (62). He exclaims, “...I couldn't do it!”, but his belief in his inability to complete the plan wavers when he then says in the same breath, “there is no flaw in all that reasoning…” (62). The flip…

therapy Jung and Adler placed strong emphasis on the subconscious mind and Erikson showed how the drives of the developing mind effects human behavior. Freud’s concept of dream analysis and the key concepts to this type of therapy was expanded on by Carl Jung in the concepts of archetypes. Freud’s theory focused on personality development that occurred within the child years of an individual 's life and Erikson took it in to…