ABSTRACT
Working with herald dreams in supervision can be a rewarding educational experience. Working in group supervision tends to yield a greater number of potentially illuminating associations. There is a certain infectious enthusiasm that tends to enhance the joy and excitement of working with symbolic material. There is also less concern about being criticized than in one on one supervision, so that the spontaneity of responses is enhanced. The approach to the herald dream yielded a highly accurate assessment of the patient's core issues, in the absence of her personal associations. The dream-ego's response to trauma is to lie still in a coffin. The possible behavioral responses to danger include fighting, fleeing, or freezing. Within two weeks of reporting the dream, the patient required hospitalization for a major depression. Finally the dream-ego enters a cemetery. A cemetery is a place where the dead are laid to rest.
