Dream Interpreters

"The action of this novel takes place in a psychiatric institution in Tennessee during the 1960s. The institution is in a state of upheaval because a new director of research is being sought. Will it be someone from within the institution, or will it be an outsider? The players maneuver and outmaneuver one another as they wait to find out who the new director will be. The politics surrounding this search weave in and out of the seven psychoanalyses through which the main action is portrayed.

The analysands and the analysts and their respective husbands and wives, some of whom have escaped from Hitler's Europe and some of whom are native-born Americans, appear through the medium of the analyses, which present a rich mixture of the human condition in all its anguish and joy, love and hatred."--Jacket.