Trauma and Dreams

Trauma and Dreams
Author Deirdre Barrett (Editor)
Cover artist Francisco Goya
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Harvard University Press
Publication date
1996 hardcover/2001 paperback
Pages 282
ISBN 9780674006904

Trauma and Dreams is a 1996 book edited by Deirdre Barrett and published by Harvard University Press. Chapter authors are prominent psychologists and physicians including Oliver Sacks and Robert J. Lifton.

Barrett opens the Introduction with a quote from poet Elias Canetti, "All the things one has forgotten / scream for help in dreams." The book describes how trauma effects the content of dreams, differentiating between the typical effects of adult vs. childhood trauma and between one-time traumas vs. those that are experienced repeatedly. It discusses what dreaming can tell us about trauma and how dreamwork may be employed in psychotherapy to aid the recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[1]

Reviews

"Beyond that important, but non-scientific import, the book also provides a few interesting surprises for the student of sleep and dreams. One is Ernest Hartmann's astute suggestion that the terrifying dreams of post-trauma victims are neither nightmares nor night terrors but a completely unique species of nocturnal horror: the intrusion of unadulterated waking visions into almost any stage of sleep. Another is Oliver Sack’s view of dreaming as a possible aid in the diagnosis of emerging degeneration in the brain." – J. Allan Hobson in Nature Medicine[4]

References

  1. "Trauma and Dreams Deirdre Barrett | Harvard University Press". hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  2. "Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries – ACRL Choice". American Library Association. 1996. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  3. Ben Shepard (12 December 1997). "Perchance we dream? (Review of Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett)". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  4. J. Allan Hobson (February 1997). "Trauma and Dreams edited by Deirdre Barrett". Nature Medicine. nature.com. 3 (2): 243. doi:10.1038/nm0297-243. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
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