ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the psychoanalytic view that patients suffering from psychosis fail to dream, and the idea that group analysis can help people with psychosis to reconstruct their ability to dream, thereby contributing to their therapy. It demonstrates that the deficit of dreaming in psychosis is on the phenomenological or manifest-content dream level, rather than on the ontological or latent-content dream level. During the first stage, the patients' initial recounted dreams indicated that the fantasy of the primal scene, and of the group conceived as such, was either hidden in dreams that had the features of delirium, or was depicted in the form of another primary fantasy such as that of the mother with the penis. During the second stage, the dreams of the patients suffering from psychosis recounted in the group, evidently emerged from a first mirroring of the dreaming person with the group conceived as a good enough dreaming process.
