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Suggested Reading
There is a long history of articles and publications that explore psychoanalytic perspectives on dreams. Here are a few that we have found enriching. Please send us your work, or work of interest to you, if you feel it should be included on this page.
Alston, T. M., Calogeras, R. C., Deserno, H. (Eds.). (1993). Dream Reader:Psychoanalytic Articles on Dreams. Madison, CT: International Universities, Press, Inc. ISBN: 978-0823614523
Blechner, M. J. (2001). The dream frontier. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press Inc., Publishers. ISBN: 0-88163-224-4
Charles, S., David, S., Konstantine, P., & Kathleen, K. (2014). On dreams. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 9(4), 324–338. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2014.948368
DiCello, D.H., & Mangione, L. (2014). Daughters, dads, and the path through grief: Tales from Italian America. Impact Publishers.
Erikson, E. H. (1992). The dream specimen of psychoanalysis. In Lansky, M. R. (Ed.). Essential papers on dreams: origins to present. (pp.137-182). New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN:978-0-8147-5062-9
Eshel, O (2006) Where are You, My Beloved? : On Absence, Loss, and the
Enigma of Telepathic Dreams. The International Journal of
Psychoanalysis, 87,1603-1627
Freud, S. (1955). The method of interpreting dreams: An analysis of a specimen dream. The Interpretation of Dreams: The complete and definitive text. J. Stachey (Ed. & Trans.). (pp.121-146). New York, NY: Avon Books.
Freud, S. (1955). The dream-work. The Interpretation of Dreams: The complete and definitive text. J. Stachey (Ed. & Trans.). (pp.295-512). New York, NY: Avon Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01977-9
Freud, S. (1955).The psychology of the dream-process. The Interpretation of Dreams: The complete and definitive text. J. Stachey (Ed. & Trans.). (pp.513-616). New York, NY: Avon Books. ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01977-9
Greenson, R. R. (1992). The exceptional position of the dream in psychoanalytic practice. In Lansky, M. R. (Ed.). Essential papers on dreams: origins to present. (pp.83-110). New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN:978-0-8147-5062-9
Hobson, J. A. (1992). The brain as a dream machine: An activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming. In Lansky, M. R. (Ed.). Essential papers on dreams: origins to present. (pp.452-476). New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN:978-0-8147-5062-9
Kalsched, D. (2013). Trauma and the soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption. Routledge.
Lansky, M. R. (Ed.). (1992). Essential papers on dreams: origins to present. New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN:978-0-8147-5062-9
Lippmann, P. (2000). Nocturnes: On listening to dreams. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press
Mendelsohn, R. M. (1990). The manifest dream and its use in therapy. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, Inc. ISBN: 978-0876687666
Neri, C., Pines, M., & Friedman, R. (2002). Dreams in Group
Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Ogden, T. (2001). Conversations at the frontier of dreaming. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, Inc. ISBN: 978-0765703125
Ogden, T. H. (2017). Dreaming the analytic session: A clinical essay. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 86(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/psaq.12124
Suchet, M. (2004). Whose mind is it anyway? Studies in Gender & Sexuality, 5(3).
Mayer, E. L. (2001). On “Telepathic dreams?”: An Unpublished paper
by Robert J. Stoller. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, 49(2), 629–57.
Online Learning Resources
There are many resources available online to support learning about the psychoanalytic study of dreams.