CHRONIC NIGHTMARES ARE A COMMON CONDITION AFFLICTING AT LEAST 4% OF THE ADULT POPULATION AND A HIGHER, ALBEIT UNDETERMINED, PROPORTION of children and adolescents.1 Nightmares cause or exacerbate insomnia2,3 and psychiatric distress,4-6 as well as impair quality of life.7 Several techniques have been fully developed or explored to treat nightmares, including imagery rehearsal therapy,8-14 lucid...

Nightmare and dreaming are so closely entangled, that it is impossible to study their phenomena apart. It is the subject of nightmare to which I would especially direct attention. Having been myself a martyr to this distressing complaint, I have been in the habit, during a period of twelve years, of making notes of my mental state and physical condition before and during the attacks, in the hop...

BACKGROUND Recurrent nightmares can effectively be treated with cognitive-behavioral techniques such as imagery rehearsal therapy, which involves imagery rescripting (IR) of nightmares, and imaginal exposure (IE) therapy. However, the underlying mechanisms of these treatments remain largely unknown. To investigate this, we identified a number of variables that might mediate the therapeutic effe...

Nightmares are extremely distressing dreams that usually interrupt the sleep of the person, bringing them to a state of total wakefulness in which they vividly remember the dream content. The themes of these dreams normally relate to threats to physical integrity (e.g., attacks) or self-esteem (e.g., personal failure), which may reflect real experiences or fictitious events. Nightmares usually ...

Correspondence Address/Yazışma Adresi Dr. Nurhan Fıstıkcı, Bakırköy Prof. Dr. Mazhar Osman Ruh Sağlığı ve Sinir Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Psikiyatri Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye Phone: +90 533 526 13 66 E-mail: [email protected] Received/Geliş tarihi: 19.06.2014 Accepted/Kabul tarihi: 22.06.2014 ©Copyright 2014 by Turkish Association of Neuropsychiatry / ©Telif Hakkı 2014...