Publication Announcement by Brent Willock (Canada)

Willock, B. (2024). Dreams within dreams or ambiguous (partial) awakenings? International Journal of Controversial Discussions, 2(3): 53-83.

This article complements and challenges current comprehension of dreams within dreams. It identifies a need to be more rigorous regarding the essential elements and boundaries defining this concept and to provide greater contextual detail in presenting such phenomena and in our work with them. Sometimes what is reported as a dream nested in a dream may be better understood as a partial or actual awakening. Dreams of all sorts provide an analytically valuable “third” that analysts and patients can contemplate, associate to, and strive to figure out collaboratively. The author concurs with those who, like Freud, continue to find these nocturnal hallucinations to be a royal road to understanding unconscious processes.

Brent Willock, Ph.D.
Toronto, Canada
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