ABSTRACT
A detailed description of analytic work, in which the author dreams the analytic session with three of his patients, is provided in this chapter. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of aspects of analytic theory that make up a good deal of the context for the author’s clinical work. Central among these concepts are: (1) the idea that the role of the analyst is that of helping the patient dream his previously “undreamt” and “interrupted” dreams; and (2) the notion that dreaming the analytic session involves engaging in the experience of dreaming the session with the patient and, at the same time, unconsciously (and at times consciously) understanding the dream. There is no “technique” for dreaming the analytic session. Each analyst must find his or her own way of dreaming each session with each patient. Dreaming the session is not something one works at; rather, one tries not to get in its way.
