Dreaming and Thinking brings together an unusually rich set of essays which illustrate a range of approaches to dream analysis in contemporary analytic practice.
Edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg, this collection gathers papers first delivered as public lectures by members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and published by Karnac in 2000. It treats dreaming and thinking as continuous processes rather than separate faculties, and reads the dream space as a place where a patient's capacity to symbolise can be observed, tested, and sometimes found wanting.
The contributors approach the material from distinct clinical angles. Several examine the dream space in relation to countertransference; others follow what happens when symbolisation collapses, in eating disorders that cling to the concrete and in borderline states. Further chapters consider symbolic impoverishment and the question of the other, and the way dreams hold past and future together in the present.
For the practitioner, the value lies in seeing how contemporary British analysts actually work with dream material, and in the connections the essays draw between a dream's form and a patient's wider mental functioning.
About the author
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Brazilian-born British psychoanalyst working within the traditions of contemporary British psychoanalysis and in dialogue with French psychoanalytic thought. She came to the field from social anthropology and family therapy, and is known for work on sexuality, gender, violence, time and dreaming, including the concept of apres coup. She is a training and supervising analyst and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and has been a visiting professor at University College London.
Details
- 2000
- Karnac
- Karnac
- 150
- 9781855759787