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Dreams in an Analytic Cotherapy Group

PO Box 3736 Maoz Zion-Mevasseret Zion 90805, Jerusalem, Israel

Elma Stibbe Van Adelsberg

#22, 23 Herzog Street, Givatayim 53601, Israel

This article deals with dreams as a major mode of communication and of therapeutic change in a group. We suggest the main factors in enabling a positive therapeutic outcome were the use of the group `cultural container' as an external world transitional `play space' in which group participants' inner dream space/container experiences and personal symbolism were expressed and `toyed' with in the telling of dreams. We speculate as to whether and to what extent tensions between cotherapists might have promoted dream work in the group. Issues between the cotherapists affected the group process and we recommend outside supervision in cotherapy groups.

Key Words: co-therapy • dreams in group therapy • dreams of inner worlds reflected in `play space'

Group Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 2, 187-202 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316497302004


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