Resource Tag: DREAMS

This paper illustrates the characteristics of suicidal behaviour in 3 psychiatrically hospitalized children (6-12 yrs.), with neurotic, borderline, & psychotic disorders. It is suggested that the nature of suicidal fantasies & the mode of ego functioning associated with suicidal behaviour in these disorders is similar, but other differences in the fantasies & ego functioning also […]

The interaction of war, flight, relocation, and survivor stress are examined in a case study of a Hmong refugee. The need for culturally appropriate treatments for non-Western clients is highlighted, and a possible link is suggested between the circumstances of the case study and sudden death syndrome.

Describes psi phenomena, revolving around the theme of suicidal death, in Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina and relates them to events in Tolstoi’s life and presentiments he had of his own death.

This paper deals with the subject of voyeurism in an attempt to add to the dynamic & genetic understanding of this problem through the presentation of clinical material gathered in the treatment of a patient in intensive, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy over a 40 month period. 16 Ref.

This paper postulates that abnormalities of consciousness can play an important role in the psychopathology of suicide & also as major factors leading to self destruction. 5 cases, chosen both from the literature & from personal clinical experience, are presented to illustrate how consciousness disturbances can lead to suicide.

This article describes the severity of the suicide epidemic, citing statistics & analogies in order to emphasize itsÕ influence in the United States. The author argues for increased awareness & training of medical professionals to prevent suicide. Issues of confidentiality related to suicide & the need for direct questioning of patients regarding suicidal thoughts are […]

The author diferentiates between the normal grieving process & those responses that are pathological & indicative of underlying neuroses or psychosis. Case histories are presented and explored in psychoanalytic terms. Implications of dreams, unresolved developmental stages, and the use of defensive mechanism are examined.(NBB)

The central themes of this paper are an adolescent boy`s tragic & chaotic life, dominated by object loss, the struggle against depressive affect, & the ways in which this struggle found form & direction under the sway of adolescent development.

The author presents several dreams reported by psychsomatic patients which contain an overt or disguised act of suicide. In the latter instances various transformations of the act of suicide had been brought about by the defensive functions of the dreaming ego. Paradoxically, in several of these instances it was the very efforts of the dreaming […]

This study constitutes an attempt to differentiate between dreams of patients who have attempted suicide and acutely disturbed nonsuicidal patients. The dreams of patients from these two groups were recorded and compared, and differences in the thematic content of the manifest dreams were found. The specific themes of death and destructive or violent hostility were […]

Fourteen articles covering attitudes towards death manifested in dreams and nightmares, psychological theories on death and attitudes toward death in suicidal subjects. Highlights include the relationship of death anxiety to repression-sensitization, a consideration of ego arrest and denial and the role of the family hostility or death wishes from others in suicidal patients.

Argues that suicide is a symbolic, reified solution of a conflict, with largely unconscious purposes. The conflict is one of identification, & suicide is motivated by magical wishes. Using suicide to fulfill these wishes requires a view of death where one does not really die, where death might actually bring powers, or where harm of […]

This article provides 4 case histories involving dreams which the author describes in psychoanalytic terms. All 4 dreams give the dreamer clues that the spouse or, in 1 case, patient, is considering suicide. In 3 cases, the partner ignores or denies hints in the dream, & the spouse kills him or herself. The author suggests […]

This paper describes the problem of pathological grief reaction, & reports techniques used to resolve it. The mechanism of splitting is used to help the patient re-evaluate reality. The focus is a strong emphasis on explanations & interpretations made by the therapist, & the meanings which the patient has condensed into the loss. (GW)