Dreams and Prophecy: The Mantic Interpretation on Psychotherapy
ICSPConference Proceedings 2022 April 1, 2022 M. Vaz
The mantic and prophetic interpretation of dreams, an ancient practice across many civilizations, played a central role in Freud's psychoanalytic method, though its mantic quality—the belief that dreams convey divine or prophetic messages—has been overlooked. In recent decades, ethnopsychiatry has revived this mantic meaning to help patients, particularly those experiencing trauma, develop new perspectives. This article explains how mantic dream interpretation can be integrated into the psychotherapeutic process.