Katerina Mangana

Department of Psychology, Unversity of Bellingen, Bellingen, Germany

Publications
  • Review Article   
    Traumatic Memory and Dream Process: From Unconscious to Consciousness
    Author(s): Katerina Mangana*

    Dream process is essential for our body and mind. It is not just a bio-data, it is a meaningful experience that helps the human being to grow, classify their memories, elaborate their feelings and inner repulsed desires and conflicts. Traumatic memory can sabotage this process; block the memory network disrupting the streams of communication between unconscious and consciousness. In the therapeutical context dreams are of the most powerful and revealing material. They can unlock crucial points of the analytical process as shown in the short clinical presentation. The topic I am about to present concerns the traumatic memory and the dream process from a psychoanalytic approach. We know that dreams are of great importance in psychoanalysis but also in the psychosomatic since everything a human being experiences has an inscription on both soma and mind on the psychosomatic unit.. View more»

    DOI: 10.35248/2475-319X.24.9.351

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