by Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

DREAMS, DAYDREAMS, AND REVERIE: ENRICHING CLINICAL WORK WITH A NEUROPSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE

January 9th - June 5th, 2026
Meeting once monthly via Zoom from 11:45 am - 1:15 pm

This seminar will explore the neurobiological underpinnings of dreams, daydreaming, and fantasy. Neurobiological findings show ways to expand how we work with dream material and attend to reverie in the clinical moment. A neuropsychoanalytic perspective has the ability to illuminate the ways in which unconscious fantasy can be expressed in dreams, bodily sensations, and repeated patterns of behavior. We will explore how fantasy facilitates memory reconsolidation and the development of new learning, allowing us and our patients to update old predictions and expand the ability to work, love, and play. This exploration will both support established psychodynamic methods of attending to fantasy, and may suggest new ways to work with dreams and reverie.

Instructor: Dr. Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P., psychoanalyst and behavioral neuroscientist

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