The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on -Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy-, focus on the close connection between children's imaginative world, their dream life, and play. Is it a dream that a child is recounting or is it rather a fantasy to be regarded as equivalent to a dream? Children's play, too, presents important material that allows us to draw inferences about the subconscious. Indeed dreams, daydreams, fantasies and play were originally treated as of equal importance in child analysis.

The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on -Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Ps...