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Twenty-five years ago, when I first became interested in books on psychoanalysis, the selection was limited to monographs and the works of individual authors; but since then, and especially in the last decade or so, edited collections have been appearing on a widening range of subjects. Often modestly priced, they allow the average analyst to have in his or her own library the classics of psychoanalysis
Dream Reader is a large, rather expensive and ambitious contribution to this genre. It contains fifty-one of the “most significant and current psychoanalytic papers on dreams written since World War II” (p xv) which the editors believe have contributed to the psychoanalytic understanding of the dream or to psychoanalytic theory and practice in general Two of the editors (Alston and Calogeras) teach a course on dreams at a psychoanalytic institute and are interested in dream research; all three are practising analysts in the Frankfurt-Wiesbaden-Heidelberg area of Germany.
The nine sections of the book deal with: the multiple uses of dreams (miscellaneous papers ranging from the post-traumatic dream to the role of the nursemaid in Freud's dreams), dreams and the psychoanalytic situation and process; typical and traumatic dreams;