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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE published: 17 December 2013 doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00877 Trauma, dream, and psychic change in psychoanalyses: a dialog between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences Tamara Fischmann , Michael O. Russ and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber * Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany Edited by: To many psychoanalysts dreams are a central source of knowledge of the Nikolai Axmacher, University of unconscious—the specific research object of psychoanalysis. The dialog with the Bonn, Germany neurosciences, devoted to the testing of hypotheses on human behavior and Reviewed by: neurophysiology with objective methods, has added to psychoanalytic conceptualizations Perrine M. Ruby, Insitut National de Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, on emotion, memory, sleep and dreams, conflict and trauma. To psychoanalysts as well France as neuroscientists, the neurological basis of psychic functioning, particularly concerning Anna Buchheim, University of trauma, is of special interest. In this article, an attempt is made to bridge the gap Innsbruck, Austria between psychoanalytic findings and neuroscientific findings on trauma. We then attempt *Correspondence: to merge both approaches in one experimental study devoted to the investigation of the Tamara Fischmann, Sigmund-Freud-Institut, neurophysiological changes (fMRI) associated with psychoanalytic tre