ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents the graduate seminars in psychoanalysis and practiced a version of psychoanalytic therapy. Sigmund Freud always considered The Interpretation of Dreams his most significant book and the author was very taken with it, beginning the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) dream research thinking that the author would find confirmation of his ideas. The research showed that the personal qualities of the therapist were more important to the success of the treatment than their theoretical orientation. Waking subjects out of REM sleep and getting their dream reports was a method akin to using a newly discovered microscope. Freud held that dreams, like neurotic symptoms, were the disguised fulfillment of unconscious—primarily sexual—wishes. J. S. Ablon and E. E. Jones, for example, indicate that cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective when the therapists use analytic psychotherapy methods: that it is the kind of person and the relationship that is most important.
