title: First reported dreams in psychoanalytic group psychotherapy.
abstract: Analysis of dreams is often used in group psychotherapy to explore common group tensions and individual internal conflicts. The author pays special attention to the first dream which a patient reports in the course of group psychotherapy. These first reported dreams clearly and accurately reveal the patient's basic conflicts and also reflect the progressive stages of group-as-a-whole tension from issues of dependency, advice-giving, and universality to explorative resolution of conflicts.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004325:Dreams; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D014167:Transference, Psychology