Clinical Uses of Dreams in Psychoses A Psychoanalytic Approach

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This groundbreaking work challenges traditional psychoanalytic practice by demonstrating how dreams can be effectively utilised in treating psychotic patients. The book provides comprehensive solutions to clinical challenges faced when working with psychotic patients and their dreams. It addresses the difficulty patients experience in distinguishing between dreams reality and delusions while tackling the problems some psychotic patients face with free association and the prevalence of disturbing nightmares. The work establishes how dreams fundamentally contribute to treatment by putting ineffable experiences into discourse enabling historisation and replacing traditional free association wi…