ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes changes in dreams in a patient investigated in the Frankfurter-functional magnetic resonance imaging/electroencephalography-Depressionsstudie (FRED) study. FRED is an example of a fruitful combination of two domains—psychoanalysis and neurosciences. The dream coding method of Ulrich Moser and von Zeppelin is an evaluating system used to analyse the dream material based on their model of cognitive-affect regulation, using formal criteria to investigate manifest dream content and its changing structures. The dream is regulated by the involvement principle from the beginning, which alludes to an advanced therapeutic effect. In all successive situations more interactions appear: connecting as well as self-changing relations of subjects and objects. The dream coding system aims at making these structural aspects of dreaming transparent in order to better understand the affect regulation processes taking place. Two principles of affect regulation are assumed: the security principle and the involvement principle.
