Motor activity in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) has been linked to dream content. Systematic and controlled sleep laboratory studies directly assessing the relation between RBD behaviours and experienced dream content are, however, largely lacking. We aimed to investigate whether a link can be established between RBD behaviours and dream content when both are systemati...

We review theories of dream work. We also review the empirical research about how dreams are used in psychotherapy, as well as the process and outcome of different models of dream work. Finally, we review how dream content can be used to understand client, the role of culture in dream work, client and therapist dreams about each other, and training therapists to do dream work.

We tested the hypothesis (McNamara 1996; Zborowski and McNamara 1998) that dream recall and dream content would pattern with interpersonal attachment styles. In study I, college student volunteers were assessed on measures of attachment, dream recall, dream content and other psychologic measures. Results showed that participants who were classified as 'high' on an 'insecure attachment' scale we...

Content analysis is one of the basic methods utilized in psychological dream research (1-3). The following example illustrates this approach. A psychotherapist speculates that depressive patients dream about rejection more often than comparable healthy controls. A research colleague elicits 100 dream reports of healthy subjects and 100 dream reports of patients with depression and constructs a ...

J T R E U D POINTED OUT that the production of a manifest dream from a latent dream thought involves essentially the regressive transformation of the latent dream thought, as expressed in words, into perceptual forms, most commonly into visual images. These are then subjected to symbolic representation, condensation, substitution of a part for a whole, hints and allusions, and displacement of a...

A number of hypotheses about the effects of presleep stress on dream recall among field-dependent and field-independent subjects were tested to explore the role of repression and of dream affect in dream recall. The effect of presleep stress was to increase arousal during rapid eye movement sleep and affect in dream reports. The data also suggest that the most affectful dreams are best recalled...

This paper examines how dreaming and interactive processes of dream interpretation reflect progressive development of ego states. We consider the associate and interpretive amplifications of dream process in treatment, with examples from early, middle and end phases of analysis. A corollary is that while dream structure and content may vary along a developmental continuum of treatment, technica...

We investigate what distinguishes reported dreams from other personal narratives. The continuity hypothesis, stemming from psychological dream analysis work, states that most dreams refer to a person’s daily life and personal concerns, similar to other personal narratives such as diary entries. Differences between the two texts may reveal the linguistic markers of dream text, which could be the...