Psychoanalytic dream interpretation and Waldhorn (1967) have downgraded Freud's classical view of dreams from extremely important to being on a level playing field with other psychological phenomena. Developments in REM research (Ellman and Antrobus, 1991) have also played a part in diminishing dreams importance in both clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. For psychoanalysts dreams can present a challenge as their interpretation often can overwhelm other aspects of a patients problem and take up much of the time spent on the patient, and in many cases interpretations served the interpreter and not the patient. Dream discussion has taken a back seat to the discussion of
Winter of Our Dreams the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called "Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain" about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was re used in "Winter of Our Dreams". There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain. "Winter of Our Dreams" was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars. Winter of Our Dreams Winter of Our Dreams is a 1981 Australian