Dreaming and Being Dreamt

In Dreaming and Being Dreamt, John Schneider illustrates the central concept of all emotional functioning: that we are most alive in our dreaming, and that it is dreaming that brings us to life.

Autorentext

John A. Schneider is a supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is part of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses. Previously, he served as the associate director of the Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, and an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry. He was an associate clinical professor in psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.

Klappentext

In Dreaming and Being Dreamt, John Schneider illustrates the central concept of all emotional functioning: that we are most alive in our dreaming, and that it is dreaming that brings us to life.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. From Freud's Dreamwork to Bion's Work of Dreaming: The Changing Conception of Dreaming in Psychoanalytic Theory 3. Bion's Thinking About Groups: A Study of Influence and Originality 4. Panic as a Form of Foreclosed Experience 5. Working with Pathological and Healthy Forms of Splitting 6. Experiences in K and -K 7. Janus-Faced Resilience in the Analysis of a Severely Traumatized Patient 8. Eating Disorders, Addictions, and Unconscious Fantasy 9. Signs and Symbols in Dersu Uzala 10. Dreaming the Truth of Experience: Heaven