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Mark Blechner is a training and supervising analyst and member of the teaching faculty at the William Alanson White Institute and at the New York University Post-doctoral Program in Psychology and Psychoanalysis. He also participates in the study group on neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. In this book, his intention is to integrate the theory of dream formation, the meanings of dreams, the clinical use of dreams, and the implications of dream phenomena with our understanding of the brain. Blechner emerges through his writing as an astute dream interpreter and as a gifted teacher. In this book, he critically reviews the vast literature and draws on his wide range of cultural interests, sensitively synthesizing the complexities of dreams. Studying his work helped me in my ongoing efforts to interrelate dream theory and its clinical application, both in my practice and in my teaching. This review permits me to make only a few comments on this rich and thought-provoking book.
The title The Dream Frontier expresses Blechner's assumption, which agrees with Freud, that in psychoanalysis the dream forges ahead of the treatment (Freud, 1912). They both emphasize this unique feature of the dream. Freud concentrated on understanding the intrapsychic world of the patient's dreams. Blechner adds that in-depth comprehension of the patient's dream can bring out special information