ABSTRACT
This chapter synthesizes information and key points made throughout the book, which include: (a) the ability of dreams to maintain and create relationships, (b) the ability of dreams to provide a foundation for learning that in turn serves as an influential event in the lives of others, (c) the acknowledgment that careers develop first and foremost through relationship, (d) the ways dreams make meaning through relationship, (e) how dreams provide a container (Bion, 1967/1993) for the unthought known (Bollas, 1987), and (f) an assimilation of the relational phenomenon that transpires through dreams. This chapter also provides a theory regarding the lack of difference in gender expression across the professionals represented in this book. The chapter ends with summarizing statements regarding the synergy between relationships and dreams.
