The use of dreams in brief therapy.

Suggests a general clinical framework for listening to dreams and interacting with the patient's dreams in brief therapy. Dreams may aid in assessing the quality of object relations and transference, facilitating expression of repressed affect, setting a therapeutic focus, placing dream material in reality, determining resistances, locating meaning, and implementing insight. (27 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)