SELECTED TOPICS IN DREAMING
Henry Abramovitch


** Required Reading.


17.4.07
1. Overview of the Jungian Approach to Dreaming.

**Candidates must choose one of the following seven references and present a brief five minute report of the key idea that struck you most. Do not do a summary! Arrange among yourselves who will report on what so that all seven references will be covered.

**Readings:

Andrew Samuels (1985) "Dreams" & Clinical illustration Jung and the Post Jungians. London: Routledge. Ch. 8, pp. 230-248 7 Ch. 9, pp. 249-56.

Mary Ann Marroon, (2006) "Dreams" in Renos Papadoupoulos (Ed.) The Handbook of Jungian Psychology. London: Routledge. Ch. 11. pp. 240-259.

James Wyly (1995). "Dreams and Jungian Analysis" in Murray Stein *(Ed.) Jungian Analysis. 2nd edition. Chicago & La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. Ch 5. pp. 105-136.

James Hillman (1979). Psyche and Attitude to Dreams in Dreams and the Underworld.

Micah Ankori, Psychology of the Dream. Rosh Ha ayin: Prologue. (Hebrew)

Joseph Cambray and Linda Carter (2004). Analytic Methods Revisited. In Analytical Psychololgy: Comtemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis (Eds. Joseph Cambray and Linda Carter) Hove & NY: Brunner-Routledge. Ch. 5. pp.116-148; especially p. 130-144.

Whitmont and Perera, Dreams, A Portal to the Source. London: Routledge. Choose any two Chapters.

1.5.07
2. Initial dream & Termination dream

Reading:

**Maduro (1987). "The Initial dream and analysability in beginning analysis" JAP 1987, 32, 199-226.

**Auger (1986) "Images of endings" JAP, 31

8.5.07
3. When my patient dreams about me. When I dream about my patient.

Reading:

**"Dreams of therapy and the figure of the therapist & Conclusion" in Whitmont and Perera, Dreams, A Portal to the Source. London: Routledge. Ch. 12-13.
pp. 149-82

**Abramovitch H. & Lange T. (1994).
Dreaming about my patient: a case illustration of therapist s initial dream
Journal of the Israeli Association for Analytical Psychology 1 (1): 21-32, 1994. (Hebrew).


15.5.07
4. Dreams in Judaism and Islam

Readings:

**Talmud Bavli, Maseket Brachot. (Hebrew)

**Joel Covitz (1990). The Interpretation of Dreams : An abridged translation of Pitron Chalomot by Solomon Almoloi & Dream Incubation Visions of the Night: A Study of Jewish Dream Interpretation. Boston: Shambhala. Ch. 2 pp. 10-55; Ch. 6, pp. 133-142.

Sefer Hapitaron Khalomot Hashalem, Jerusalem: Bakal. (Hebrew)

Yoram Bilu (1979). "Sigmund Freud and Rabbi Yehuda: On a Mystical Tradition of "Psychoanalytical" Dream Interpretation." Journal of Psychological Anthropology 2: 443-63.

Hasan-Roken (1999). "Communication with the Dead in Jewish Dream Culture".
Moshe Idel (1999)" Astral Dreams in Judaism" in David Shulman & Guy Strumsa (Eds.) Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming. Chs. 11 & 12. pp. 213-251.

4b. Dreams in Islam
G.E. von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois (Eds.) (1966). The Dream and Human Societies. University of California Press. esp. Chapters 1, 21,22,23,24,25.


29.5.07
5. Working with Dreams with People from a Different Culture and Dream Tradition.

Readings:

**Henry Abramovitch 2000. Analytical Psychology in Different Cultural Contexts Journal of the New Israeli Jungian Society v.3 , (Hebrew) www.

**Samuel Kimbles, (2004). A cultural complex operating in the overlap of clinical and cultural space. In Thomas Singer & Samuel Kimbles (Eds.). The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspective on Psyche and Society. Hove & NY: Brunner-Routledge. Ch. 13, pp. 199-211.

**Vera Buhrman. (1986). "Dreams" in Living in Two Worlds: Communication between a white healer and her black counterparts. Chiron Publications. Ch. 5

Michael Vannoy Adams, (1996). Color change dreams and racial identity. In The Multicultural Imagination: Race , Color and the Unconscious. London: Routledge. Ch. 13.

Barbara Tedlock (1987). Dreaming: anthropological and psychological interpretation. NY: Cambridge University Press. esp. Herdt, "Contexts of Dream Disclosure

H. Abramovitch. The Nightmare of Returning Home: Acute Onset Dream Anxiety Disorder treated by Lucid Dreaming Israel Journal of Psychiatry 32:140-5, 1996.

Yoram B. & Abramovitch, H. "In Search of the Saddiq : Visitational Dreams among Moroccan Jews in Israel" Psychiatry 48: 83-92, 1985.

Abramovitch, H. & Bilu, Y. "Visitational Dreams and Naming Practices among Moroccan Jews in Israel. Jewish Journal of Sociology 28(1): 13-21, 1985.

Mircea Eliade, (1966). "Initiation Dreams and Visions among Siberian Shamans" in G.E. von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois (Eds.) (1966). The Dream and Human Societies. University of California Press. Ch. 19. pp. 331-340.

Artemidorus. (1975). The Interpretation of dreams. Translated by Robert J. White. Park Ridge, NY: Noyes Press. in Naftali Lewis.


6. Dream Series

Readings:

**James Fosshage & Clemens Loew (1987). Dream Interpretation: A comparative study. Revised Edition. NY: PMA.
Introduction pp. 3-6; The Case of Martha pp. 7-13; Jungian Approach pp. 53-78; Comparison and Synthesis pp. 243-298; Epilogue pp. 319-320.

Ann Mankowitz (1984). Changes of Life: A psychological study of dreams and the menopause. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Richard Kagan (1990). Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain .University of California Press.

Joy Schaverein (2002). The Dying Patient: Desire Dreams and Individuation. Ch. 4-6.

Robbie Bosnak,(1995). Dreaming with an AIDS patient. Boston: Shmabhala.


7. Freud's Dream of Irma's Injection

Reading:
**Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. The Specimen Dream of psychoanalysis: Irma s Dream. Penguin Books. Ch 2, especially pp. 180-199. Preamble, Dream July 23-4, 1895, Analysis. Hebrew version available.

**Robbie Bosnak, The Dirty Needle: Images of the Inferior Analyst
Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress of IAAP 1983 or Spring 1984.





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