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Current research into the process of dreaming has shown that dreams occur much more often in all human beings than was hitherto suspected. The analyst or therapist is no exception to this finding. Among the dreams of the therapist are dreams about the patient. Dreaming about the patient in the manifest content of a dream is one form of countertransference dream. The percentage of the total dreams of therapists is probably not much different than that which can be deduced from Freud's original book of The Interpretation of Dreams, i.e., 6 percent of the therapist's dreams have patients in the manifest content and 34 percent have patients in the latent content as well.
The various sources that are examined for dreams about patients by therapists are: (i) Freud's dreams; (ii) therapists' dreams about patients experimentally recovered; (iii) dreams about patients by psychiatric residents in supervision; (iv) dreams about patients of analysts as candidates; (v) dreams about patients by psychiatric residents in treatment; (vi) dreams about patients by therapists not in treatment or supervision; and (vii) articles containing references to therapists' dreams about patients.