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The authors discuss a technique for self-analysis of countertransference using the visual imagery evoked by the analyst's associations to material in the patient's dreams. The verbal description of the dream by the patient represents the final result of the dream work, including secondary revision. The imagery added by
the analyst is a new version to which his unconscious has contributed. His self-analysis can be a useful tool in treatment to correct his own immature attitudes and make his interpretations more objective, thus freeing the patient from a possible barrier to further insight. Although countertransference can be analyzed in many different ways, this method provides a distinct and relatively simple procedure.