title: On examination dreams.
abstract: The literature concerning examination dreams is reviewed, and the case of a patient who had a number of examination and examination-like dreams is described. Examination dreams are related to traumatic dreams, "idiosyncratic" dreams, and various behavioral expressions. In addition, constitutional factors involving impulse-defense imbalance, childhood experiences with physical difficulties and medical examinations, and ambivalent identifications and object relations seem to find representation in these dreams.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation