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Der träumende Analytiker. [The Analyst as Dreamer.] By Ralf Zwiebel, pp. 776-802.
Zwiebel is interested in the basic processes, attitudes, and functions of becoming and remaining an analyst. He postulates three dimensions: (1) It is a lifelong task to work on one's professionalism; (2) This process must be individualized with each analytic patient; and (3) The process is further developed in each individual analytic session.
The author is especially interested in how the analyst manages to achieve a balance between his personal empathy for the patient and his conceptualization of the analytic process, which requires a greater emotional distance. Elsewhere, Zwiebel (2013) described essential processes in the analytic situation from the perspective of an analyst who wishes, dreams, relates, reflects, and interprets.
In the present paper, Zwiebel focuses on the significance of the function of dreaming for the process of becoming and remaining an analyst. He posits that this dream function varies with the kind of working model regarding dreams that a particular analyst employs. He cites Moser (2005, 2013), who stated that analyst and patient sometimes have different dream theories or models, which can be quite contradictory; the analyst's model determines what he will hear and how he will approach the patient's dream. The analyst's private theory of dreams is often a combination of his everyday ideas about dreams and what he has learned about established dream theories.