The Clinical Use of the Analyst's Dreams of the Patient

Watson, Robert I.

doi:10.1080/00107530.1994.10746870

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Countertransference Dreaming: Life in the Intersubjective Third

Rachmani

2018

Am J Psychoanal

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In this paper the author asks, "How long is the life of an intersubjective field?" She proposes that it is possible for the field to remain active and instructive even after formal sessions have ended: This occurs in her case of Carla, a young woman who terminates prematurely. Carla enters treatment in a downward spiral of severe trauma symptoms that began subsequent to her rape, a decade earlier. Although Carla's symptoms diminish and the analysis continues to be productive, it suddenly ends in an impasse, leaving the analyst perplexed and feeling professionally insufficient. Months later, she has three dreams pertaining to Carla and her rape. Largely employing Jessica Benjamin's recognition theory and her representation of the intersubjective third, as well as contemporary Bionian thinking, the paper depicts how countertransference dreaming is one example of how the intersubjective field can carry on the psychoanalytic function-even outside of formal treatment.

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Countertransference Dreaming: Life in the Intersubjective Third

Rachmani

2018

Am J Psychoanal

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Therapist perspectives on their dreams about clients: A qualitative investigation

Spangler

Hill

Mettus

et al. 2009

Psychotherapy Research

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The authors interviewed eight experienced therapists regarding their dreams about clients and analyzed the transcribed interview data using consensual qualitative research. Results indicated that dreams typically were about difficulties with clients, intense personal concerns, and negative interpersonal interactions. Therapists used multiple methods to work with the dreams and made gains in insight focusing on countertransference or overidentification and the need to make fundamental changes in the therapeutic relationship or in the therapist's life. On the basis of the insight, therapists made changes in the treatment of the dreamed-about clients and in their personal lives. Implications for practice and research are discussed.

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Hidden Self-States: Some Reflections on the Patient’s Trauma and the Analyst’s Undreamt Dreams

Tung

2022

Psychoanalytic Social Work

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The Clinical Use of the Analyst's Dreams of the Patient

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Countertransference Dreaming: Life in the Intersubjective Third

Countertransference Dreaming: Life in the Intersubjective Third

Therapist perspectives on their dreams about clients: A qualitative investigation

Hidden Self-States: Some Reflections on the Patient’s Trauma and the Analyst’s Undreamt Dreams

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