Abstract

This article presents clinical vignettes that show the use of dreams in group analysis. Clinical material belongs to the analytic group conducted by the first author. Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. In this paper, there is an emphasis on group dreams. The group presented has a developed coherency and group empathy, and therefore group members have a capacity to share intimate contents. During the time of parallel processes within the group – preparation for separation i.e. agreed on termination of group therapy for one member and entering the group for another member, there was, in author’s opinion, a group climate for sharing group dreams which were typical for entering a group and preparation for separation. Those dreams significantly enriched the group’s work creating a possibility for deeper vertical communication through a developed network of relationships (matrix).