title: Patient's sleep on the analytic couch.
abstract: Published reports about sleep on the couch have primarily emphasized its preoedipal (especially oral) determinants and defensive purposes. A detailed case is presented in which sleep became the central symptom of the transference neurosis. The primary determinants of the symptom were from the phallic-oedipal stage of development. Like other symptoms, the sleep symptom was a reliving of earlier experiences and was analyzed primarily through the transference. The analytic data from the case are used to illustrate resistance as an ally in the psychoanalytic process.
authors.affiliation: Emory University Psychoanalytic Center.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Inderbitzin
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012890:Sleep; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology