TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischmann, Tamara
A1  - Russ, Michael O.
A1  - Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne
T1  - Trauma, dream, and psychic change in psychoanalyses : a dialog between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences
T2  - Frontiers in human neuroscience
N2  - To many psychoanalysts dreams are a central source of knowledge of the unconscious-the specific research object of psychoanalysis. The dialog with the neurosciences, devoted to the testing of hypotheses on human behavior and neurophysiology with objective methods, has added to psychoanalytic conceptualizations on emotion, memory, sleep and dreams, conflict and trauma. To psychoanalysts as well as neuroscientists, the neurological basis of psychic functioning, particularly concerning trauma, is of special interest. In this article, an attempt is made to bridge the gap between psychoanalytic findings and neuroscientific findings on trauma. We then attempt to merge both approaches in one experimental study devoted to the investigation of the neurophysiological changes (fMRI) associated with psychoanalytic treatment in chronically depressed patients. We also report on an attempt to quantify psychoanalysis-induced transformation in the manifest content of dreams. To do so, we used two independent methods. First, dreams reported during the cure of chronic depressed analysands were assessed by the treating psychoanalyst. Second, dreams reported in an experimental context were analyzed by an independent evaluator using a standardized method to quantify changes in dream content (Moser method). Single cases are presented. Preliminary results suggest that psychoanalysis-induced transformation can be assessed in an objective way.
KW  - EEG-fMRI
KW  - dreams
KW  - neurosciences
KW  - psychic trauma
KW  - psychoanalysis
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32837
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-328376
SN  - 1662-5161
N1  - Copyright © 2013 Fischmann, Russ and Leuzinger-Bohleber. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 7
IS  - Article 877
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -