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Nightmares: Friend or foe?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Ross Levin
Ross Levin
Affiliation:
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 levin@mary.fordham.edu
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Abstract

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Revonsuo's evolution-based theory places the nightmare as a prototype dream, which fully realizes its biological function. However, individuals who experience both repetitive (PTSD) nightmares and/or lifelong nontraumatic nightmares demonstrate impaired psychological functioning and attenuated information-processing. The importance of reconciling these discrepancies are addressed and ideas for providing stronger empirical tests of the model are presented.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000, pp. 965
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press