
Dream Therapy for PTSD
The Proven System for Ending Your Nightmares and Recovering from Trauma
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Dream Therapy for PTSD
The Proven System for Ending Your Nightmares and Recovering from Trauma
About this book
In this series of clinical vignettes, a board-certified psychiatrist and life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association illustrates the effectiveness of dream therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be disabling and difficult to treat, often leading to depression, suicide, and homicide in extreme cases. In this clinical-based reference, acclaimed psychiatrist and neuroscience researcher, Bruce Dow, provides a step-by-step approach for implementing dream revision therapy—a treatment proven to eliminate nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, and other debilitating effects of PTSD. Drawing from work with patients in both military and civilian settings, Dow shows how to utilize imagery rehearsal exercises to help mitigate the effects of the illness. The vast majority of the book's 11 chapters focus on clinical case studies of patients who have suffered under the effects of the disease—for example, a hotel employee who witnesses a gory suicide; a female police officer whose career-ending crash in her patrol car brings back traumatic memories from childhood; and Vietnam combat veterans with recurrent posttraumatic nightmares. Each vignette offers details of the dream revision method along with clinical tips for ensuring its success. The final chapter features descriptions of brain mechanisms of PTSD and dream revision.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- ONE: Rescript Your Dreams and Recover from PTSD
- TWO: The Dream Team: Group Therapy for Combat Nightmares
- THREE: Postal: Dream Revision for Homicidal Impulses
- FOUR: Bubbles: Revising Combat Dreams about Drowning
- FIVE: High Dive: Revising an Interrogation Dream
- SIX: Retraumatization and Recovery: Vietnam and 9/11
- SEVEN: Explosion: Dream Revision for Triggered Memories
- EIGHT: Car Crash: Dream Revision for Adult and Child Trauma
- NINE: Junkyard Dog: Revising Dreams That Involve Guilt
- TEN: Harassment: Dream Solutions for Waking Problems
- ELEVEN: Brain Mechanisms of PTSD and Recovery
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author