The dictionary is based on many years of experience in personal analytical practice, as well as the work of Freud, Jung, Stekel, Hall, Adler, Jacobi, Whitmont, Layard, Lacan, Gutheil, E. Erikson, Moneghetti and representatives of the semiological, mythological and structural schools. anthropological analysis.

The dictionary system is similar to the famous Chetwynd dictionary, translated into Russian by V. I. Egorov in 1988. That is, it is constructed in such a way that it allows not only to analyze an isolated symbol, but to approach the semantic interpretation of the plot of a dream or fantasy. Techniques for transforming dreams during night terrors and nightmares are presented. The interpretation is deliberately simplified.

The book is intended for analysts, psychologists and psychiatrists.

V. P. Samokhvalov. Psychoanalytic dictionary and work with symbols of dreams and fantasies. - Simferopol: SONAT, 1999. - p. 184