ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates patients with psychosis, although they initially present themselves as unable to dream, progressively rediscover their ability to produce proper dreams, as long as their therapy evolves in the context of a heterogeneous group-analytic group. A set of patterns of therapeutic intervention or coping strategies has been proposed on the basis of several theories, aiming at either preventing auditory verbal hallucinations by blocking or transforming subvocal activity through behavioural treatment. The chapter provides an initial analysis of the dreams of the patients who hear voices and participate in a heterogeneous group-analytic group. The effectiveness of group therapy for outpatients with psychosis, especially schizophrenia, was clearly verified in literature reviews. Group-analytic psychotherapy, as conducted in a mixed group comprising patients with neurosis, psychosis, and psychosomatic symptoms, provides decisive help to patients hearing voices as they gradually reconstruct their ability to produce proper neurotic dreams with exemplary symbolism and imagery on the phenomenological level.
