One of prominent features related to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is according to DSM-5 “recurrent distressing dreams in which the content and/or affect of the dream are related to the traumatic event(s)”. The phenomenology and the underlying dynamics of traumatic dreams are areas of study that still need to be understood. The study presented in this chapter is a qualitative study of traumatic dreams of torture survivors of the last Balkan wars. Aims of the study were to demonstrate two different methods of qualitative analysis of dreams which could be used for the investigation of latent structures of reported narratives of dreams, and to demonstrate how these structures are reflected in posttraumatic states, as changes in affect regulation, symbolization and attachment to others. An additional aim of the study was to help clinicians to better understand their traumatized patients’ dreaming by identifying mechanisms related to posttraumatic processes within the dream and t...hus give a better understanding on how the traumatized dreamers attempt of healing fail in recurrent nightmares.
Keywords:
Zurich dream process coding system / Traumatic dreams / Torture / Psychoanalytic enunciation analysis / Psychoanalysis
Source:
Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2017, 395-409
TY - CHAP
AU - Jović, V.
AU - Varvin, S.
AU - Rosenbaum, B.
AU - Fischmann, T.
AU - Opačić, Goran
AU - Hau, S.
PY - 2017
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2398
AB - One of prominent features related to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is according to DSM-5 “recurrent distressing dreams in which the content and/or affect of the dream are related to the traumatic event(s)”. The phenomenology and the underlying dynamics of traumatic dreams are areas of study that still need to be understood. The study presented in this chapter is a qualitative study of traumatic dreams of torture survivors of the last Balkan wars. Aims of the study were to demonstrate two different methods of qualitative analysis of dreams which could be used for the investigation of latent structures of reported narratives of dreams, and to demonstrate how these structures are reflected in posttraumatic states, as changes in affect regulation, symbolization and attachment to others. An additional aim of the study was to help clinicians to better understand their traumatized patients’ dreaming by identifying mechanisms related to posttraumatic processes within the dream and thus give a better understanding on how the traumatized dreamers attempt of healing fail in recurrent nightmares.
PB - Springer New York
T2 - Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
T1 - Sleep studies in Serbian victims of torture: Analysis of traumatic dreams
EP - 409
SP - 395
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_34
ER -
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Jović, V., Varvin, S., Rosenbaum, B., Fischmann, T., Opačić, G.,& Hau, S.. (2017). Sleep studies in Serbian victims of torture: Analysis of traumatic dreams. in Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Springer New York., 395-409.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_34
Jović V, Varvin S, Rosenbaum B, Fischmann T, Opačić G, Hau S. Sleep studies in Serbian victims of torture: Analysis of traumatic dreams. in Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 2017;:395-409.
doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_34 .
Jović, V., Varvin, S., Rosenbaum, B., Fischmann, T., Opačić, Goran, Hau, S., "Sleep studies in Serbian victims of torture: Analysis of traumatic dreams" in Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (2017):395-409,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_34 . .
