Therapeutic dreams in Auschwitz

• Authors: Wojciech Owczarski
• Conference: "The Holocaust and the Contemporary World" (Kraków, 23-24 April 2015)
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to answer the question whether the dreams of Auschwitz prisoners had a therapeutic function. The author selected 51 dreams (out of 208 dreams reported in 1973 by former Auschwitz inmates) from which it followed that a particular dream had some kind of a positive influence on the dreamer: on his or her mood, frame of mind, faith in the possibility of survival and liberation, or even his or her health condition. The author found three dominant groups of such dreams: “caring” dreams, “freedom” dreams, and metaphorical dreams, and described their helping effects.

Keywords

EN

Dream; therapy; the Holocaust; concentration camp in Auschwitz

• Publisher: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• Journal: Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 6 "The Holocaust and the Contemporary World"
• Pages: 85-92

Contributors

author

Wojciech Owczarski

• Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

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