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    Psychotherapists’ dreaming experiences and countertransference dreams from a psychoanalytic perspective
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2021) Ermergen, Sezgi; Sideris, Alev Çavdar
    ABSTRACT: In the psychotherapeutic processes, the focus is mostly on the dreams of the clients, and psychotherapists’ dreams can find an arena for investigation only in their own personal therapies, considering only their own internal dynamics. With the shift in the psychoanalytic thinking that put emphasis on relational, intersubjective point of views the psychotherapists’ subjective presences which are in interaction with the patients in the therapy rooms have begun to be considered as significant as well. At this point, psychotherapists’ dreaming experiences and their dreams about patients which are named as countertransference dreams have also begun to find themselves a place in the theory and practice more. In the literature which consists mainly of case vignettes, these dreams were associated mostly with hardships in the therapy process, therapists’ competency concerns, intersubjectivity, projective identification, and/or unconscious communication. Nevertheless, there is not extensive empirical literature about this subject. In the present study with 113 psychotherapists who participated in an online survey, a preliminary empirical exploration of this topic without having specific hypotheses is aimed. In the first part of the study, a general exploration of dreaming frequencies of psychotherapists and their associations with certain professional characteristics as well as variables such as psychotherapists’ experienced difficulties during therapies and attitudes towards dreams were provided. In the second part of the study with 55 psychotherapists who remembered at least one of their countertransference dreams the specific characteristics of these dreams and the dreamt about client, information about therapists’ understandings and gains from these dreams as well as their possible associations with the therapeutic relationships were collected. According to the regression analysis, psychotherapists’ experienced difficulties while conducting psychotherapies, their having psychoanalytical orientation, and general dream recall and processing frequencies were identified as significant predictors of countertransference dreaming frequency. Additionally, psychotherapists’ bearing positive attitudes regarding dreams, their experience levels, psychoanalytical orientation, working with adult clients, and their general dream recall and processing frequencies were found to be significant predictors of the frequency of processing dreams in clinical settings. In terms of the characteristics of reported countertransference dreams, a continuity between interpersonal interactions and feelings in the dreams and psychotherapists’ evaluations of the therapeutic relationship as well as their countertransference reactions towards the dreamt about clients were observed. Detailed findings regarding these specific dreams were reported in the study. All findings were discussed considering the existing literature, and limitations of the study as well as future directions were provided.