Dream Discourse Today

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.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: The Psychoanalytic Dream: The Psychoanalytic Process. Dream Psychology and the Evolution of the Psychoanalytic Situation. Part Two: The Dream Controversy: Is it the Royal Road Today? Dreams in Clinical Psychoanalytic Practice. The Exceptional Position of the Dream in Psychoanalytic Practice. Part Three: The Dream-space. The Use and Abuse of Dream in Psychic Experience. The Function of Dreams. Dream as an Object. The Experiencing of the Dream and the Transference. Some Reflections on Analytic Listening and the Dream Screen. The Film of the Dream. Part Four: The Adaptive Ego and the Dream. The Manifest Dream Content and its Significance for the Interpretation of Dreams. A Psychoanalytic-dream Continuum: The Source and Function of Dreams. Dreaming and the Organizing Function of the Ego. Psychoanalytic Phenomenology of the Dream. Name Index. Subject Index.

"... 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