Review of: Dreams: A Key to Self-Knowledge

In this book, readers are presented with another approach to decoding dreams--the Perceptanalytic Dream Interpretation System. Readers are told that the usual psychoanalytic mode of dream interpretation is flawed. Freud focused on the wish-fulfilling function of the dreams, but Piotrowski and Biele conceptualize dreams as unconscious attempts to clarify the dreamer's "personal intrapsychic conflicts" and to find solutions to the conflicts. They provide detailed "rules" and "axioms" to guide dream interpretation. However, Piotrowski and Biele do not offer any empirical evidence as to the reliability or validity of their dream interpretation rules. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)