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Continuation of Opening Phase to Early Middle Phase

January 29, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Diane Wolman, MSW
Scot Gibson, MD


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January 29, 2021 — The Analytic Field: Working with Dreams

Presenter: Diane Wolman, MSW

[78 pages]

Freud famously said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious.  He considered The Interpretation of Dreams his major work.  As productions of the dreamer’s mind, they offer analyst and analysand unique opportunities to better understand what might lay hidden in the  mind.  Learning to work with dreams in psychoanalytic treatments can help to open up treatments and assist the analytic dyad in getting past “stuck” places together.

The Greenson article, written 50 years ago, offers a nice history of the use of dreams in psychoanalytic treatments. It also offers beautiful examples of how different ways of working with dreams can open up or foreclose on the analytic process. Fosshage offers helpful technical principles for working with dreams. Sands, in a more recent article (2010), discusses the analytic function of dreams in activating dissociative unconscious communication, which ties in nicely with the Bromberg article we read.

Ron Furedy, a SPSI faculty member who has taught the course on Dreams to fourth year students for many years, has provided guides for how to understand dream concepts and how to work with them analytically. I have added these handouts to the Suggested Readings for Further Interest.

Given that we are offering a lot of material on Dreams, we will be better able to make recommendations for what you might want to focus on and what could be left out, for the purposes of this class, once we get to know you and what makes the most sense for you at this stage of your clinical experience and development.

Greenson, R. (1970). The exceptional position of the dream in psychoanalytic practice, Psychoanalytic Quarterly: 39:519-549.

Fosshage, J.L. (1997). The Organizing Functions Of Dream Mentation. Contemp. Psychoanal., 33:429-458.

Sands, S.H. (2010). On the Royal Road Together: The Analytic Function of Dreams in Activating Dissociative Unconscious Communication. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20(4)357-373.

Optional Reading

Grenell, G. (2008). Affect Integration in Dreams and Dreaming. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 56(1):223-251.

Freud, S. (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume V (1900): The Interpretation of Dreams (Second Part), pp509-629

Furedy, R. (2013) Summary of Dream Concepts

Furedy, R. (2013) A Guide to Working with Dreams Analytically



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January 29, 2021
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