The Significance of Dreams

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Horst Kachele is the former director of the University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ulm University, Germany (1990-2000), also former director of the Research Centre for Psychotherapy, Stuttgart (1988-2004); he teaches now at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is Vice Chair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, and head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemology and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary discourse with embodied cognitive science, educational sciences, and modern German literature. David Taylor is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Clinical Research Sub-Committee.

PART I: CLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER ONE - The re-awakening of psychoanalytic theories of dreams and dreaming; CHAPTER TWO - Dreams and play in child analysis today; CHAPTER THREE - The manifest dream is the real dream: the changing relationship between theory and practice in the interpretation of dreams; CHAPTER FOUR - Changes in dreams - from a psychoanalysis with a traumatised, chronic depressed patient; PART II: EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER FIVE - Dreams as subject of psychoanalytical treatment research; CHAPTER SIX - The work at the gate - discussion of the papers of Juan Pablo Jimenez and Horst Kachele; PART III: CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATIONS CHAPTER SEVEN - When theories touch: an attempted integration and reformulation of dream theory; CHAPTER EIGHT - 'It's only a dream': physiological and developmental contributions to the feeling of reality; CHAPTER NINE - Discussion of Steven J. Ellman's and Lissa Weinstein's chapters PART IV: CLINICAL AND EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH IN ONGOING PROJECTS AND DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER TEN - Changes in dreams of chronic depressed patients: the Frankfurt fMRI/EEG study (FRED); CHAPTER ELEVEN - Traumatic dreams: symbolisation gone astray; CHAPTER TWELVE - Communicative functions of dream telling; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ADHD - illness or symptomatic indicator for trauma? A case study from the therapy comparison study on hyperactive children at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - No intermediate space for dreaming? Findings of the EVA study with children at risk; PART V: DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Orders of the imaginary - Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and the literature of classical modernity;