ABSTRACT
Social dreaming began from recognising the value of a focus on the dream rather than the dreamer. The tension between any singular experience and the capacity to think both logically about it and systemically is the very stuff of psychoanalysis and socioanalysis. socioanalytic methods work by accessing, through the associative unconscious, the central emotional experiences to be found in a social system and its context and to open up the potential for their transformation, perhaps from a pathological to a more normal position, perhaps even to a position redolent with creative potential. Individuals are discouraged from thinking that they are simply seeing or thinking something that is personal; they mostly intuitively understand—through the ways that socioanalytic methods are used—that their experience also holds something for others. Each method was begun and developed in response to a particular need felt by practitioners as they worked with groups and organisations.
