Abstract Mkid 61

Effects of heroin abstinence on dreams of four heroin addicts in pharmacological substitution drug treatment (methadone) were considered. All patients have stopped or reduced drastically the use of heroin in the first period of treatment. At the same time they recalled wish-fulfilment dreams in which they used heroin. Frequently in these dreams the patients reported guilty/anxious feelings after the use of it. These preliminary indications suggest the following observations: 1) dreams may have an important role to understand problems of heroin addicts during therapy, 2) pathological dependencies (e.g., alcoholism, opiate addiction, etc.) may give a theoretical-methodological opportunity to examine the role of needs and/or wishes in the formation process of dream, 3) the indications of this study are consistent with Freud’s wish-fulfilment theory.