Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses A Psychoanalytic Approach

Introduction

Part 1: Variants of the Dream-Psychosis Relationship

1. Aetiological and Clinical Connections between Dreams and Psychosis

2. Alterations in Dream-Life in the Case of Mental Disease

3. Analogies between Dreams and Psychosis

Part 2: Dreams in Psychoses in Transference

4. What Unconscious? What Forms of Return?

5. On the Rejection of the Unconscious in the Psychoses

6. Contributions to a Possible Work with Dreams in Psychoses

7. Dream-Work and Jouissance

8. Some Published Clinical Examples

9. The Case of C

10. Working with Dreams as a Clinical Resource

Final Remarks

Biography

Celeste Labaronnie is an independent researcher at the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

"The reader will find in this book a different attitude: the testimony of a concerned investigation by Celeste Labaronnie into the junction between dreams and psychosis... Her writing is concise yet generous, offering a nimble journey through difficult topics and providing keys to renew our perspective on the very material we are made of and the fragmented reality in which we truly live."

Gabriel Lombardi, psychoanalyst, physician, and Doctor in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina and author of The Clinical Method in the Analytical Perspective

"Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses is an undeniable contribution to the field, belonging to the ongoing and monumental task of clinical and theoretical renewal. [...] To listen to what a dream has to say about the subjectivity of the person who produces it, the divided position of the analyst is essential; this is what the clinical example chosen by the author of this book shows."

Patricia Polari, a psychoanalyst and Former Professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina and author of Lo inconsciente en Lacan (The Unconscious in Lacan)