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- Title
Trauma-Related Dreams of Australian Veterans with PTSD: Content, Affect and Phenomenology.
- Authors
Phelps, Andrea J.; Forbes, David; Hopwood, Malcolm; Creamer, Mark
- Abstract
Objective: Consensus on the parameters of trauma-related dreams required to meet criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is critical when: (i) the diagnosis requires a single re-experiencing symptom; and (ii) trauma dreams are prevalent in survivors without PTSD.Method: This study investigated the phenomenology of PTSD dreams in 40 veterans, using structured interview and self-report measures.Results: Dream content varied between replay, non-replay, and mixed, but affect was largely the same as that experienced at the time of trauma across all dream types. ANOVA indicated no difference between dream types on PTSD severity or nightmare distress.Conclusions: The findings provide preliminary support for non-replay dreams to satisfy the DSM B2 diagnostic criterion when the affect associated with those dreams is the same as that experienced at the time of the traumatic event.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; ANALYSIS of variance; DREAMS; INTERVIEWING; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESEARCH methodology; POST-traumatic stress disorder; SCALES (Weighing instruments); SELF-evaluation; MILITARY personnel; WOUNDS &; injuries; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2011, Vol 45, Issue 10, p853
- ISSN
0004-8674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3109/00048674.2011.599314