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Dreams and Trauma Changes in the Manifest Dreams in Psychoanalytic Treatments - A Psychoanalytic Outcome Measure.
Tamara FischmannMarianne Leuzinger-bohleberGilles Ambresinsubject
differential psychotherapy research; dreams; memory reconsolidating; psychotherapeutic (psychoanalytic) treatment; research methodsPsychoanalysisUnconscious mindmedia_common.quotation_subjectdifferential psychotherapy researchSleep laboratorymemory reconsolidatingOutcome measuresdreamsBrief Research ReportBF1-990research methodsEmpirical researchEmbodied cognitionSleep researchPsychologyDreamPsychoanalytic theoryPsychologyGeneral Psychologypsychotherapeutic (psychoanalytic) treatmentmedia_commondescription
Although psychoanalysts are interested in symptom reduction as an outcome, they are looking for instruments to measure sustaining changes in the unconscious mental functioning. In this article it is discussed that conceptually well-founded transformation of manifest dreams analyzed with precise empirical methods could be considered as a promising indicator for such therapeutic changes. We are summarizing a dream generation model by Moser and von Zeppelin which has integrated a large interdisciplinary knowledge base of contemporary dream and sleep research. Based on this model the authors have developed a valid and reliable coding system for analyzing manifest dreams, the Zurich Dream Process Coding System (ZDPCS). One exemplary dream from the beginning and one from the third year of a severely traumatized, chronic depressed patient from the LAC Depression Study collected in psychoanalytic sessions as well as in the sleep laboratory have been analyzed applying the ZDPCS. Authors hypothesize that transformation in dreams as measured with the ZDPCS is the result of memory processes of traumatic embodied memories in the state of dreaming.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-14 |