A Specific Dream During the Termination Phase of Successful Psychoanalyses

Oremland, Jerome D.

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“…In addition, Sirois (1994) suggested that client dreams often signal sensitive moments in therapy, especially occurring when the client perceives the therapist's interventions as traumatic. Finally, clients sometimes present dreams about termination (Oremland, 1973). Intriguing as these observations are, empirical research is needed to increase our understanding of the role of dreams in psychotherapy (see also later section on client dreams about therapists).…”

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The Use Of Dreams In Modern Psychotherapy

Hill

Knox

2010

International Review of Neurobiology

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2010

International Review of Neurobiology

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“…Better still, and in a dramatic U-turn in thinking on the subject, it is thought that when such dreams appear in the fi nal phases they forecast a good outcome. The patient regains a more well-adjusted sense of the real, the transference distortions reduce and the related neurosis begins to resolve itself (Oremland, 1973;Ferraro and Garella, 2000).…”

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Dreams that mirror the session

Civitarese¹

2006

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Dreams in which the analyst appears undisguised almost always depict violations of the setting. Often experienced as special, epiphanic moments, they give a glimpse of an intense, emotional reaction to traumatogenic or otherwise significant events that have occurred during the session or in the most recent previous ones. Probably, the essential aspect of these dreams can be found in the 'form of their content'. This may be paralleled by the narrative technique of mise en abyme or mirror-text. The dream appears as a story within the main story and the scene of the analysis is reflected anti-illusionistically. The fictional structure of the setting is emphasized. Its theatrical self-consciousness quality is revealed at its best. The author postulates that the transformative therapeutic value of these dreams derives from denouncing the referential illusion of 'concrete reality' and of 'what really happened'. For the analysand, they are an effective (i.e. emotionally intense) opportunity to discover the spatial articulations and the staggering refractions of the inside/outside, the textual/extra-textual, the psychic reality/material reality. In the continual comings and goings from one term to another, the work of symbolization is reactivated and the subject is constructed. Dreams that mirror the session, from this point of view, provide a model for conceptualizing the analytic work, and their significance goes beyond the specific phenomena referred to. A clinical case is given, in which some of one patient's dreams are considered as they occurred over a short period. In one of them, the dream-within-a-dream phenomenon is present.

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“…Dreams of the analyst occurring at the other end of the treat ment process are discussed by Oremland (1973). He presents sev eral dreams occurring either after setting the date for termina tion, or the night before the last session, in which he appears as himself and the patient's initial symptom emerges in a modified form.…”

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The Patient's Dreams of the Analyst

Kavanagh

1994

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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A Specific Dream During the Termination Phase of Successful Psychoanalyses

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The Use Of Dreams In Modern Psychotherapy

The Use Of Dreams In Modern Psychotherapy

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The Patient's Dreams of the Analyst

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