Working with Dreams in Transactional Analysis

Anna Emanuela Tangolo, psychologist and psychotherapist, supervisor and transactional analysis teacher of the European Transactional Analysis Association (TSTA-P), is director and founder of the PerFormat school in Pisa, Genoa and Catania. She has published Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Transactional Analysis, and Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis with Anna Massi, both in Italian and English (Routledge), and directs the journal Percorsi di Analisi Transazionale, as well as the publishing series Percorsi. Francesca Vignozzi is a psychologist and psychotherapist, supervisor, and teacher (PTSTA-P) in training at the European Transactional Analysis Association. She is deputy director of the PerFormat school in Pisa, Genoa, and Catania. She has published the book Comprendere la psicoterapia and is the author of several articles and scientific contributions on psychodynamic transactional analysis.

Introduction 1. Dreams in psychology and psychotherapy 2. Neurosciences and dreams 3. Transactional Analysis of dreams Suggestion: The history and culture of dreams 4. Our method of dream analysis in the different settings 5. Dreams in individual psychotherapy 6. Script dreams, recurring dreams Suggestion: Kafka, insomnia and dreams 7. Trauma, dissociation, nightmares 8. Change and transformation dreams 9. Dreams of healing 10. Transference and dreams Suggestion: Cinema and Fellini 11. Dreamwork in group therapy 12. Countertransference dreams Suggestion: Cinema Sci-Fi, Anime and Graphic Novels