ABSTRACT
A dream told in a group has a strong impact on its working culture, openness, trust, and deepens the understanding of individual and social unconscious processes. Although dreaming may be highly influenced by interpersonal stimuli, it is an autonomous, intra-psychic function. Dream telling is a social event, making it especially interesting in groups. The author uses three approaches to a dream the more familiar informative and formative uses along with a new approach that focuses on its interpersonal and intersubjective aspects, which he calls transformative of relations. Although the informative approach deepens the level of dialogue, the transformative use uncovers the relationships generated by dreams, a formative approach first acknowledges the need to structure dreams with noninterpretative means. There are at least two contraindications to interpreting: the individual's situation and the group's maturity must be judged by the therapist as sufficiently mature to handle deep and frightening emotional content.
