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Ron reported dreaming that he was attacked by a large dog. His psychoanalyst suggested that the dog symbolically represented Ron's father, who sometimes mistreated him as a child. The analyst's suggestion best illustrates the practice of

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Ron reported dreaming that he was attacked by a large dog. His psychoanalyst suggested that the dog symbolically represented Ron's father, who sometimes mistreated him as a child. The analyst's suggestion best illustrates the practice of interpretation.

This interpretation is the process of assigning a meaning to a dream due to deductions based on who is interpreting it. The psychoanalyst deductions are basically his interpretation to Ron' dream which might not necessarily be correct.

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