8807 1999 eng article 0 -- -- -- Since Freud's Dream Interpretation and his additional writings on the analysis of dreams, the technique of handling a dream report within the analytic session has remained nearly unchanged. It is characterised by dream-centred associations and their interpretation in regard to dream content and to transference. This approach constitutes an alien element within contemporary interactional psychoanalytic technique and tends to provoke resistances in the analytic dialogue. This article stresses the function of dream reporting during the session with respect to the interactional process. It is concluded that sufficient attention should be given to interactional analysis of dream reporting in accordance with the questions: Why does the patient at this point of the process tell a dream, and why does he tell this very dream instead of another? International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 2, October 1999), pp. 75-86. Ermann_M_1999a Z 071-1999 print and PDF-scan / Druck und PDF-Scan PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage Ermann_M_1999a on request / auf Anfrage Michael Ermann Articles / Artikel https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/files/8807/Ermann_M_1999a.pdf