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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes the analyst's role in facilitating the patient's processing of
  • undreamt
  • or
  • interrupted
  • dreams.
  • The concept of
  • dreaming the analytic session
  • is central to the author's clinical work.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the clinical application of
  • dreaming the analytic session
  • in psychoanalytic therapy.
  • To explore the analyst's dual role of experiencing the dream with the patient and unconscious understanding.

Main Methods:

  • Clinical case descriptions of analytic sessions with three patients.
  • Theoretical discussion of psychoanalytic concepts related to dreaming and the analytic process.

Main Results:

  • The paper illustrates how analysts can engage in
  • dreaming the session
  • by unconsciously and consciously understanding the dream.
  • It highlights that this process is not technique-driven but an emergent experience.

Conclusions:

  • Dreaming the analytic session
  • is an intuitive process that analysts should allow to unfold naturally.
  • Each analyst must develop their own approach to this phenomenon within the therapeutic relationship.