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Response to The Personal, the Relational, the Group and the Social in a Globalized World — a Perspective through Working with Dreams by Gila Ofer, December 2014

We were so glad and happy to read such an interesting response by Gila Ofer because it is finally possible to think, discuss and work with dreams again. We absolutely agree that dreams are the path leading to the recovery of our patients. Today there is confusion concerning what we have to do with dreams because the interpretation contains the infantile sexual wishes, and the embedded sexual material from the psychoanalytical classic view. Dreams also represent the interpersonal space between patient and analyst as Blum reports in Gila Ofer’s article. To use the words of Erikson, the interpretation of dreams must also consider the dream’s context. There are so many levels, perspectives and methodologies to approach dreams that a dream such as Irma’s (Freud) can be interpreted hundreds of times by hundreds of therapists. We all know that this is not possible: dreams have their meaning and can be interpreted only in the specificity of the therapeutic relationship: they are closely related to that patient, at the time of the psychotherapy and to that specific relation. The Research Group of Psychodynamic Psychiatry that I co-ordinate in Rome with Dr. Floriana Florio, believe that the child born sane who encounters an experience in the mother–child relationship (or relevant relationship), which interrupts his development, could later generate psychopathology. The demonstration of the sanity of the child is expressed by 593496 GAQ0010.1177/0533316415593496Group AnalysisBattuello and Errico research-article2015