Nightmares, Bad Dreams, and Emotion Dysregulation

@article{Levin2009NightmaresBD,
  title={Nightmares, Bad Dreams, and Emotion Dysregulation},
  author={Ross Levin and T. Nielsen},
  journal={Current Directions in Psychological Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={18},
  pages={84 - 88}
}
  • Ross Levin, T. Nielsen
  • Published 2009
  • Psychology
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
    • Nightmares—vivid, emotionally dysphoric dreams—are quite common and are associated with a broad range of psychiatric conditions. However, the origin of such dreams remains largely unexplained, and there have been no attempts to reconcile repetitive traumatic nightmares with nontraumatic nightmares, dysphoric dreams that do not awaken the dreamer, or with more normative dreams. Based on recent research in cognitive neuroscience, sleep physiology, fear conditioning, and emotional-memory… CONTINUE READING
    View on SAGE
    drrosslevin.com
    114 Citations
    Highly Influential Citations
    7
    Background Citations
    47
    Methods Citations
    3
    Results Citations
    3
    114 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Nightmares and the Mood Regulatory Functions of Sleep
    Predicting the affective tone of everyday dreams: A prospective study of state and trait variables
    • 3
    • PDF
    Frontal Brain Activity and Subjective Arousal During Emotional Picture Viewing in Nightmare Sufferers
    • PDF
    Arousal in Nocturnal Consciousness: How Dream- and Sleep-Experiences May Inform Us of Poor Sleep Quality, Stress, and Psychopathology
    • 16
    • PDF
    Sleep-related experiences longitudinally predict elevation in psychopathological distress in young adult Israelis exposed to terrorism
    • 15
    Disturbed Dreaming and Emotion Dysregulation
    • 21
    • PDF
    An exploratory study on the relationship between dissociation in waking life and negative contents in dreams
    • 5
    Does alexithymia moderate the relation between stress and general sleep experiences
    • 5
    • PDF
    The Effects of Sleep Quality on Dream and Waking Emotions
    Nightmares and their relation with trauma U C / F P C E
    • PDF

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 22 REFERENCES
    Nightmares: a new neurocognitive model.
    • 236
    • PDF
    Disturbed dreaming, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affect distress: a review and neurocognitive model.
    • 404
    • PDF
    Variety and Intensity of Emotions in Nightmares and Bad Dreams
    • 91
    The relationship of nightmare frequency and nightmare distress to well‐being
    • 159
    Nightmare frequency versus nightmare distress: relations to psychopathology and cognitive style.
    • K. Belicki
    • Psychology, Medicine
    • Journal of abnormal psychology
    • 1992
    • 159
    Nightmares and bad dreams: their prevalence and relationship to well-being.
    • 289
    • PDF
    Laboratory sleep correlates of nightmare complaint in PTSD inpatients
    • 120
    • PDF
    Who has nightmares? The personality of the lifelong nightmare sufferer.
    • 89
    Nightmare prevalence, nightmare distress, and self-reported psychological disturbance.
    • 233
    • PDF
    Characteristics of the frequent nightmare sufferer.
    • 96