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The volume edited by Maurizio Gasseau and Riccardo Bernardini, ‘Il Sogno. Dalla Psicologia Analitica allo Psicodramma Junghiano’ (The Dream. From Analytical Psychology to Jungian Psycho-drama) is a significant contribution to the theory and clinical application of analytical psychology. The book is the outcome of a workshop that took place at Eranos between 2004 and 2007, on the issue of the dream in the context of Jungian oriented psycho-drama. The workshop was attended by students from the School of Psychology of the University of Turin and the University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy, by trainees in analytically oriented psychotherapy, Jungian psychodrama therapists and various other professionals. It was carried out partly according to the methods of the Social Dreaming Matrix and partly with the contribution of theoretical seminars on the dream in ancient cultures, in analytical psychology and in Jungian psychodrama.
The seminars were carried out in collaboration with the Laboratorio di Ricerche di Dinamica di Gruppo (Research Laboratory of Group Dynamics) directed by Maurizio Gasseau (School of Psychology, University of Valle d'Aosta) under the auspices of the Study and Research Center of the Confederazione di Organizzazioni Italiane Ricerca Analitica Gruppi (Confederation of Italian Organizations of Analytical Research on Groups) – COIRAG.
As John van Praag, President of the Eranos Foundation, states in his preface, the Eranos Foundation has slept a dreamless sleep for a number of years, but it has recently started to dream again, ‘Eranos does not simply dream its glorious past, but it dreams on its contributions to our 21st Century's thinking’ (p. 13; my translation).
The volume keeps a dialogue open between two components, theory on the one hand and clinical practice on the other, in some way showing the clinical applications of many classical Jungian views, which constitutes its undoubted value.
Following the structure of the seminars, the book is divided into three