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Trauma and Dreams Trauma and Dreams edited by deirdre barrett harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Copyright © 1996 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 2001 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trauma and dreams / edited by Deirdre Barrett. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-90552-0 (cloth) ISBN 0-674-00690-9 (pbk.) 1. Dreams. 2. Post-traumatic stress syndrome. 3. Psychic trauma. 4. Nightmares. 5. Dream inter- pretation. I. Barrett, Deirdre. RC489.D74T73 1996 616.85′21—dc20 96-13023 To our research subjects and psychotherapy clients, whose collective experience may guide those who cope with and treat trauma in the future Contents CCoonntteennttss Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 deirdre barrett Part One Dreams after Childhood Trauma 1 Children’s Traumatic Dreams 9 kathleen nader 2 Dreams and Nightmares of Burned Children 25 frederick j. stoddard, david s. chedekel, and laura shakun 3 Identifying Sexual Trauma Histories from Patterns of Sleep and Dreams 46 kathryn belicki and marion cuddy 4 The Use of Dreams with Incest Survivors 56 johanna king and jacqueline r. sheehan 5 Dreams in Multiple Personality Disorder 68 deirdre barrett Part Two Adult Trauma in Wars and Natural Disasters 6 The Healing Nightmare: War Dreams of Vietnam Veterans 85 harry a. wilmer viii Contents 7 Who Develops PTSD Nightmares and Who Doesn’t 100 ernest hartmann 8 Sleep, Dreaming, and Coping Style in Holocaust Survivors 114 peretz lavie and hanna kaminer 9 Dreaming Well: On Death and History 125 robert jay lifton 10 The Collective Nightmare of Central American Refugees 140 adrianne aron 11 Jasmine: Dreams in the Psychotherapy of a Rape Survivor 148 karen hagerman muller 12 Dreams of Firestorm Survivors 159 alan siegel Part Three Traumas of Normal Living 13 Dreams and Adaptation to Divorce 179 rosalind d. cartwright 14 Dreams in Bereavement 186 patricia garªeld 15 Neurological Dreams 212 oliver sacks 16 Integration and Ambivalence in Transplants 217 robert bosnak 17 Recurrent Dreams: Their Relation to Life Events 231 antonio l. zadra References 249 Contributors 269 Index 271 Acknowledgments AAcckknnoowwlleeddggmmeennttss The Association for the Study of Dreams introduced me to many of the authors in this book. The association’s annual conferences provided an opportunity to hear of research and clinical ªndings that were not yet in print, and some of those now appear here. I would like to thank Dan Brown and Bessel van der Kolk for reviewing an early proposal for this book and suggesting additional topics and chapter authors. G. William Domhoff read and commented on several of the chap- ters in progress. At Harvard University Press the book was adeptly guided by Angela von der Lippe, and many graceful phrases owe their existence to Elizabeth Gretz’s editing. Portions of Chapter 6 ªrst appeared in Quadrant: The Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, published by the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, © copyright, The C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, 1986, and in Spring, A Journal of Archetype and Culture (Putnam, Conn.) (1986): 47–61, and are reprinted by permission. The material in Chapter 9 was originally presented at a symposium on dreams sponsored by the Department of Human Development and Health Sciences of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. It appeared in another form as Chapter 13, “Dreaming Well: Frontiers of Form,” in Robert Jay Lifton, The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age, © 1987 HarperCollins Publishers (New York: Basic Books, 1987), and is reproduced with permission. Chapter 15 is an expanded version of an article that originally appeared as “Neurological Dreams,” MD Magazine, February 1991.
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