Psychoanalysis and Dreams

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Bion, the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

By Antonino Ferro

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Psychoanalysis and Dreams delves into Antonino Ferro's original theoretical framework, extending the boundaries of understanding dreams in psychoanalysis. Drawing from Bion's alpha function theory and the analytic field concept, Ferro presents dreams as continuous transformations occurring within both patient and analyst. The work emphasises the analyst’s role in interpreting the patient’s narrative as a waking dream shaped collaboratively in the analytic session, shifting psychoanalysis from a study of contents to an evolving apparatus for thinking and transformation.

This book is aimed at psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, offering valuable insights for both practising clinicians and trainees seeking to deepen their therapeutic work.
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Ideal for practising and training psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists interested in advancing clinical techniques and theoretical understanding of dream work in psychoanalysis.

Dreams and Psychoanalysis explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro’s theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on the Bion’s theory of alpha function and the analytic field, Ferro has developed his own original theorization of transformations in dreams and of work in the analytic session as a waking dream.

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Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro’s theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion’s theory of alpha function and the analytic field, Ferro has developed his own original theorization of transformations in dreams and of work in the analytic session as a waking dream.

Clearly highlighted in the book is Ferro’s theory that transformation in dreams is the activity which is constantly carried out in the mind of the analyst, who nullifies the reality-status of the patient’s communication and considers the patient’s narrative as a dream which must be constructed in real time in the encounter between the two minds at work. At the centre of Ferro's theoretical proposal stands the transition from a psychoanalysis of contents to a psychoanalysis which develops the apparatus for thinking, based on the conception of an unconscious in a perennial state of construction and transformation, which must be dreamed, and which continuously expands as it is dreamed.

Psychoanalysis and Dreams is written for practising and training psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists and will be helpful in everyday psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work.

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"Ferro's writing is notable for its fertility of ideas and creative solutions, marked by his unique voice influenced by Bion's theories yet lively and clear." – Elias da Rocha Barros, Training Analyst, Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society

"This book showcases Ferro's imaginative skill, subtle clinical examples, and profound sensitivity to the complexities of human interaction in therapy." – David Tuckett, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367150198

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 February 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 144

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Antonino Ferro Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction

About the Author

Antonino Ferro is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), of which he is the former president, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He has been a visiting professor of psychoanalysis in various institutions in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.