[The dream as a relationship paradigm].
279 dreams were drawn from a sample of 32 reports on psychoanalytic treatments of female patients diagnosed either as hysteric (H) or depressed (D). Depending on the gender of the analyst (female = w; male = m) four groups Dm, Dw, Hm, Hw were distinguished. Content analysis of the manifest dreams as to the occurrence of objects, emotions as well as characteristic object-emotion combinations yielded significant differences between groups. The results indicate that dreams can be viewed as relationship paradigms.