We suppose that most psychoanalysts will wonder what all this discussion has to do with clinical practice. How should an analyst deal with dream material in psychotherapy? Our answer is very close to Allen Braun's quotation from the Talmud: “The dream is its own interpretation.” We have always emphasized our own clinical interest in dreams as the transparent syntheses of current concerns, past conflicts, and cognitive-emotional style. We read the current PET evidence as highly supportive of this conceptualization which obviates Freud's complex and dubious assumption of latent vs. manifest content.

We are thus completely comfortable with Morton Reiser's model of the mind as an association network with nodes of intersecting cognitive units whose emo tional salience may be highlighted in dreaming. We also share Reiser's conviction about the isomorphic