Summary Affect regulation in dreams and personality organization: Insights from an ongoing empirical study Affect regulation constitutes a central structural dimension of psychoanalytic personality theory and the theoretical foundation of the Zurich Dream Process Coding System (ZDPCS), the most elaborate instrument for the empirical analysis of dream-inherent affect regulation. Preceding...
Background: Clinical case illustrations of patients with an impairment of personality functioning (IPF) have repeatedly reported that progress during psychotherapy is reflected by alterations in dream content. However, quantitative studies based on samples of psychotherapy patients are scarce. As a core component of both personality functioning and contemporary psychodynamic dream theory, the...
Abstract Background For empirical dream research, numerous scales and rating systems exist for different facets of dreaming. Objective The present study aimed to compare two different approaches for dream report analysis focusing on content and affect regulation, respectively. Materials and methods The Hall and Van de Castle Coding System (HVCCS), complemented by two global rating scales, as...