title: The manifest problem as the psychoanalytic unit in the interpretation of dreams.
abstract: A psychoanalytic view of dream interpretation is presented based on a previous study demonstrating that the manifest content of the dream reflects ongoing significant problems and dilemmas of the dreamer. It is argued that a specifically psychoanalytic dream interpretation is one in which the focus is on the transference and resistance manifestations produced by the treatment situation, rather than a never ending search for distorted infantile or childhood motivations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology