ABSTRACT
In transactional analysis, interest in dreams has always been mixed. Berne himself, in the book on human destiny, is open to analytic dreamwork, but later, the focus of the therapeutic method he describes shifts to the analysis of the client's waking and conscious life. We shall see how integration with Gestalt psychology brought a new interest in dreams (Bowater) and how later the recovery of psychoanalytic roots identified dreams and the unconscious as fertile ground for investigation (Novellino, Sills), as well as a persistent point of interest to this day.
