Overview

The Dream Discourse Today offers an unrivalled synoptic view of key American, British and French papers on dream analysis in clinical practice. The purpose of the book is to show the reader different, well articulated perspectives, place them in historical context, and invite comparative reading. The cumulative effect of both papers and introductions is to leave the reader with an informed sense of the range of perspectives and a confidence in the continued relevance of dream analysis to practice, as some striking convergences in the implications of thinking drawn from very different approaches becomes clear. The Dream Discourse Today is the first historical and theoretical survey of its subject and the classic nature of the papers it includes will make it a first-class work of reference for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of all schools, whether in practice or still training. It should be of especial interest to those who teach courses on the theory of technique, since the place of dream analysis is almost certain to be one of the central topics in such courses.

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... I think Flanders' book stands out in its genuine attempt to be inclusive. I would happily use the book as prescribed reading for a series of postgraduate seminars with psychotherapy students. There is also plenty for the practising therapist to dip into and puzzle over. - British Journal of Psychothearapy

This is a very useful collection of papers on dreams and updates psychoanalytic concepts of dreams to include object relations, ego psychology and the use of the manifest content of the dream. The exploration of the dreams of our changing and more disturbed psychoanalytic population is particularly helpful. This book should be in all psychoanalytic libraries. <br>- Psychoanalytic Books <br> Flanders's introduction is a lucid presentation of Freud's evolving concepts of the construction and significance of dreams. <br>- Psychoanalytic Books <br>

"""... I think Flanders' book stands out in its genuine attempt to be inclusive. I would happily use the book as prescribed reading for a series of postgraduate seminars with psychotherapy students. There is also plenty for the practising therapist to dip into and puzzle over.""- British Journal of Psychothearapy"

""... I think Flanders' book stands out in its genuine attempt to be inclusive. I would happily use the book as prescribed reading for a series of postgraduate seminars with psychotherapy students. There is also plenty for the practising therapist to dip into and puzzle over.""- British Journal of Psychothearapy

Author Information

Sara Flanders received her doctorate in English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a psychoanalyst in private practice.

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