ABSTRACT
How can it be that psychiatry has abandoned the dream? It is as if Freud and Jung's discovery of an active, unconscious dimension to life has itself been massively repressed! The concept of a parallel and autonomous awareness, with its own "take" on relationships and events, has disappeared into the complicated neural networks with which we now occupy ourselves. We have lost a sense of the forest amid the dendritic trees.
This case illustrates how the simple recognition of the dreamer's Unconscious as a radically separate Other, a third voice in the therapy process, can sometimes save the day. Until it spoke, the patient and I had been busily inventing a new and improved version of his basic problem.
"Dream Rebuts Therapist in a Case of Unresolved Grief" appeared in the February 1995 Psychiatric Times.
