title: A Clinical Case Presentation: Understanding and Interpreting Dreams while Working Through Developmental Trauma.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the unique place of understanding and interpreting dreams in the psychoanalytic process while working through developmental trauma. This psychoanalytic process extended over six years and is presented in four phases: establishing the therapeutic alliance, a crisis, working through, and termination. Dreams from each of these four phases of the analysis are presented, and the collaborative work of understanding and interpreting these dreams is highlighted. Evidence is presented that from this analytic work there ensued an amelioration of the impact of developmental trauma and a furtherance of the development of internal psychic structure.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finnegan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology
keywords: countertransference; crisis; developmental trauma; dissociation; termination; therapeutic alliance; transference; understanding and interpreting dreams; working through