Psychoanalytic dream interpretation therapeutic purposes in a variety of settings. Although these theories are used, none have been solidly proven and much has been left open to debate among researchers. Some studies have shown that areas of dream interpretation can be invalid and therefore a decline in importance has been seen in psychoanalytic dream interpretation. Freud believed dreams represented a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish. He believed that studying dreams provided the easiest road to understanding of the unconscious activities of the mind. His theories state that dreams have two parts: a manifested content, which is the remembered dream after we wake,
Interpretation of Dreams (Antiphon) including E. R. Dodds, take the view that Antiphon the dream-interpreter was a separate person. The treatise is notable, in the words of Pendrick, because it "was apparently the first "literary" work written on the subject of dream-interpretation—or at least the first to have achieved wide circulation". Cicero refers to it, as do Diogenes of Oenoanda and Artemidorus. Interpretation of Dreams (Antiphon) The Interpretation of Dreams or Dream-book, written by a certain Antiphon of Athens, is an influential ancient treatise on dreams, of which only a few fragments survive. It is not certain whether the Antiphon who wrote the treatise